99 N.C. App. 421 - State v. Morocco’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably State v. Lopez (1994), 147 N.C. App. 94 - State v. Kincaid (2001)
57 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 · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Florida v. Royer · United States v. Mendenhall · United States v. Cortez
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A police officer may conduct a brief investigative stop of a vehicle where justified by specific, articulable facts which give rise to a reasonable suspicion of illegal conduct. However, police may not make Terry-stops based on the pretext of a minor traffic violation. In determining the traffic stop was pretextual, the trial court should look at what a reasonable officer would do rather than what an officer could do.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he question whether the [defendant's remaining at the scene after the conclusion of the traffic stop] was in fact voluntary or was the product of duress or coercion, expressed or implied, is to be determined by the totality of all the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he defendant's consent to search the automobile for contraband entitled [the officer] to conduct a reasonable search anywhere inside the automobile which reasonably might contain 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.