52 N.C. App. 244 - State v. Tripp’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2016
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · Rawlings v. Kentucky · Brown v. Texas · Delli Paoli v. United States · Pennhurst State School & Hospital v. Halderman
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Law enforcement officers have the right to approach a person's residence to inquire as to whether the person is willing to answer questions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“mere observation of . . . items in plain view by officers who were at a place where they had a legal right to be did not constitute an impermissible search”
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.