40 N.C. App. 748 - State v. Nesmith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
3
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Robinson · United States v. Chadwick · United States v. Edwards · State v. Eppley · State v. Roberts
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The search incident to a lawful arrest exception has resulted in two different formulae. The first concerns searches of the person arrested and the second concerns searches of the area within the control of the arrestee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fuller“in the case of a lawful custodial arrest a full search of the person is not only an exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment, but is also a 'reasonable' search under that Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fuller
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.