36 N.C. App. 469 - State v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2013
22 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Spinelli v. United States · United States v. Ventresca · Draper v. United States · State v. Vestal
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[W]hen a search is based upon a magistrate’s, rather than a police officer’s, determination of probable cause, the reviewing courts will accept evidence of a less ‘judicially competent or persuasive character than would have justified an officer in acting on his own without a warrant,’ . . . and will sustain the judicial determination so long as ‘there was substantial basis for [a magistrate] to conclude that [the items for which the search was authorized] were probably present. . . State v. McLeod, 36 N.C. App. at 473 , 244 S.E. 2d at 719 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The applicant swears to the following facts to establish probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant: On April 27, 1978 around 8:30 P.M., Sgt. L. G. Heintz and myself, Lt. I. T. Yow of the Kannapolis Police Department was checking the Lakeview Grocery on Center Grove Rd., in Kannapolis, N.C. As we pulled into the parking lot of the grocery I, Lt. Yow, observed a 1972 Chevrolet, 2S, color Grey with a black stripe down the middle of the top of the car, bearing N.C. tag #EDE-32, parked at the rear of the west side of the building. The two white males outside of the car were observed by Heintz and myself, Yow. Sgt. Heintz backed up and we talked with a John Michael Fiddler and a David Lawson who were trying to put two boxes in the car. The boxes were full of frozen meat, the meat was identified by Det. Roger Lowder, Det. Loy Ingold and Det. Mike Lowder of the Stanly County Sheriff Department in Albemarle, N.C. as being stolen from a house breaking and entering and larceny occurring in Stanly County, N.C., the victim being Joe H. Vick of Rt. 3 Albemarle, N.C. in the Millingport area of Stanly County, N.C. between 8AM and 5 PM on April 27, 1978. The meat identified by the Stanly County Detectives bore the markings of Thompson and Son Processing of Albemarle, N.C. #763. On April 27, 1978 at 3:15 P.M., I, Det. Lt. I. T. Yow received information that Otto May, owner of Lakeview Grocery in Kannapolis, N.C. was receiving stolen merchandise. I have received information for the p”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Even though the affidavit contained some information which may have come from an unidentified informant, we think the credibility of the informant or the reliability of such information need only be shown when it is necessary that such hearsay be relied upon in finding the requisite probable cause.” 36 N.C. App. at 474 , 244 S.E. 2d at 719 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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