86 N.C. App. 25 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2024
2 federal appellate · 12 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 State v. Powell · State v. Wilson · State v. McNeil · State v. Williams · State v. Maines
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he scope of the Fourth Amendment is not determined by the subjective conclusion of the law enforcement officer' " (citation omitted)). "`Willful' as used in criminal statutes means the wrongful doing of an act without justification or excuse, or the commission of an act purposely and deliberately in violation of the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Willfulness' is a state of mind which is seldom capable of direct proof, but which must be inferred from the circumstances of the particular case.”
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.