State v. Stone’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The standard for measuring the scope of a suspect's consent under the Fourth Amendment is that of 'objective' reasonableness-what would the typical reasonable person have understood by the exchange between the officer and the suspect?”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 579 - State v. Bartlett · State v. Carpenter

2. “[d]eeply imbedded in our culture ... is the belief that people have a reasonable expectation not to be unclothed involuntarily, to be observed unclothed or to have their private parts observed or touched by others.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Fuller · 202 N.C. App. 376 - State v. Battle

3. “constrained by the bounds of reasonableness: what the reasonable person would expect.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 579 - State v. Bartlett · 246 N.C. App. 295 - State v. Ladd