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3 canonical passages across 3 cases, quoted by 28 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side: they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from State v. Barnard.

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1 State v. Barnard Anchor
ncctapp · 2007
green “a police officer may effect a brief investigatory seizure of an individual where the officer has reasonable, articulable suspicion that a crime may be underway.” 13
2 State v. Watkins
nc · 1994
green “the stop must be based on specific and articulable facts, as well as the rational inferences from those facts, as viewed through the eyes of a reasonable, cautious officer, guided by his experience and training.” 13
3 State v. Hernandez
ncctapp · 2010
green “brief investigatory detentions such as those involved in the stopping of a vehicle” 2

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