104 N.C. App. 498 - State v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

170 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 170 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] trial court's rulings on relevancy technically are not discretionary and therefore are not reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard[,] . . . such rulings are given great deference on appeal.”

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 N.C. App. 676 - State v. Dixon · 249 N.C. App. 383 - State v. Clevinger

2. “`Relevant evidence' means evidence having any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 N.C. App. 676 - State v. Dixon · 131 N.C. App. 721 - Reis v. Hoots

3. “[a]lthough relevant, evidence may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 131 N.C. App. 721 - Reis v. Hoots · 178 N.C. App. 565 - State v. Grant