70 N.C. App. 403 - State v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The task of the issuing magistrate is simply to make a practical, common sense decision whether, given all the circumstances set forth in the affidavit before him, including the ‘veracity’ and ‘basis of knowledge’ of persons supplying hearsay information, there is a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found in a particular place. And the duty of a reviewing court is simply to ensure that the magistrate had a ‘substantial basis for . . . concluding]’ that probable cause existed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 89 N.C. App. 10 - State v. Fowler

2. “A search warrant is presumed to be valid unless irregularity appears on its face .... If defendant had evidence to rebut the presumption of validity of the warrant, it was his obligation to go forward with his evidence .... Defendant’s evidence is simply a denial that any male had been in his home for 48 hours prior to the search .... Such testimony is insufficient to rebut the presumption of validity of the search warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 84 N.C. App. 637 - State v. Locklear

3. “the informant stated he had been in [the] defendant's house within the past 48 hours and had seen marijuana”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Brown