43 N.C. App. 450 - State v. Prevette’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably Bower v. State (1989), State v. Prevette (1980)
55 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 Wong Sun v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Sedillo v. United States · Hester v. United States · Babich v. United States
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen officers enter private property for the purpose of a general inquiry or interview, their presence is proper and lawful. . . . `[O]fficers are entitled to go to a door to inquire about a matter; they are not trespassers under these circumstances.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the trial judge's findings of fact are supported by competent evidence they will not be disturbed on appeal, even though the evidence is conflicting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.