59 N.C. App. 99 - State v. Casey’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"Casey was in actual physical possession of the yellow plastic bag for the entire duration of the encounter with [officers] Harkey and Davis. The officers testified that Casey never set the bags down or made any effort to let go of them until requested to do so by the officers themselves. Nor was Casey in wrongful possession of the bags and therefore unable to claim standing to object to the search. {citations omitted). During the encounter, Casey had the right to exclude all others from the bags by virtue of his right of possession and control. This right in turn gave rise to a legitimate expectation of privacy in the contents of the bags. That expectation was not lost by virtue of Casey's informing the officers,. at their request, that the owner of the bags was Mr. Sport."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. MacHlah

2. “one who owns or lawfully possesses or controls property will in all likelihood have a legitimate expectation of privacy by virtue of [the] right to exclude.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Washington

3. “ordinary circumstantial evidence such as the amount of the controlled substance possessed and the nature of its packaging and labeling[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 165 N.C. App. 777 - State v. McNeil