State v. Maready’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

40 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' is required. This Court has determined that the reasonable suspicion standard requires that `[t]he stop ... be based on specific and articulable facts, as well as the rational inferences from those facts, as viewed through the eyes of a reasonable, cautious officer, guided by his experience and training.' Moreover, `[a] court must consider”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 208 - State v. Allen · 195 N.C. App. 430 - State v. Hudgins

2. “We reiterate that the overarching inquiry when assessing reasonable suspicion is always based on the totality of the circumstances. When police act on the basis of an informant's tip, the indicia of the tip's reliability are certainly among the circumstances that must be considered in determining whether reasonable suspicion exists. The potential indicia of reliability include all "the facts known to the officers from personal observation," including those that do not necessarily corroborate or refute the informant's statements.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 N.C. App. 206 - State v. Morton · 255 N.C. App. 828 - State v. Walker

3. “The relevance of a temporally remote traffic-related conviction to the question of malice does not depend solely upon the amount of time that has passed since the conviction took place. Rather, the extent of its probative value depends largely on intervening circumstances.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 265 N.C. App. 95 - State v. Schmieder · 208 N.C. App. 26 - State v. Davis