92 N.C. App. 94 - State v. Barnhardt’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he experience and expertise of the affiant officer may be taken into account in the probable causedetermination . . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 517 - Jackson v. Daniels · 191 N.C. App. 611 - State v. Bare

2. “Courts have accorded a preference to the warrant process because it provides an orderly procedure involving judicial impartiality whereby “a neutral and detached magistrate” can make “informed and deliberate determinations” on the issue of probable cause. As a result, in a doubtful or marginal case a search under a warrant may be sustainable where without one it would fall. Further, appellate court review of a magistrate’s probable cause decision is not subject to a technical de novo review, but is limited to whether “the evidence as a whole provided a substantial basis for a finding of probable cause . . . .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 161 N.C. App. 311 - State v. Rodgers

3. “[t]he information [the informant] supplied is sparse. His statement gives no details from which one could conclude that he had current knowledge of details or that he had even been inside the defendant's premises recently. The affidavit contains a mere naked assertion that the informant at some time saw a 'room full of marijuana' growing in [the] defendant's house.”

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