81 N.C. App. 200 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 148 N.C. App. 135 - State v. Logner (2001), 115 N.C. App. 711 - State v. Johnston (1994)
26 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 Terry v. Ohio · Chimel v. California · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Brignoni-Ponce
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Communications between police and citizens involving no coercion or detention are outside the scope of the fourth amendment; 2. Brief seizures must be supported by reasonable suspicion; and 3. Full-scale arrests must be supported by probable cause.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the area from within which [an arrestee] might gain possession of a weapon or destructible evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.