90 N.C. App. 455 - State v. Poczontek’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2017
6 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 Illinois v. Gates · Carroll v. United States · Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Jones v. United States · Sedillo v. United States
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An officer has probable cause to believe that contraband is concealed within a vehicle when given all the circumstances known to him, he believes there is a 'fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime will be found' therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]n officer may search an automobile without a warrant if he has probable cause to believe the vehicle contains contraband.”
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.