State v. Benters’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he duty of the reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a substantial basis for concluding that probable cause existed.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Brown · 251 N.C. App. 812 - State v. Brody

2. “[a] reviewing court has the duty to ensure that a magistrate does not abdicate his or her duty by 'merely ratifying the bare conclusions of affiants.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Brown · 249 N.C. App. 642 - State v. Jackson

3. “rely [ ] upon facts elicited at the [suppression] hearing that [go] beyond 'the four corners of [the] warrant.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Brown · 250 N.C. App. 142 - State v. Parson