110 N.C. App. 577 - State v. Matheson’s Empirical Analysis

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7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “While a lapse of time between instances of sexual misconduct slowly erodes the commonality between acts and makes the probability of an ongoing plan more tenuous, the continuous execution of similar acts throughout a period of time has the opposite effect. When similar acts have been performed continuously over a period of years, the passage of time serves to prove, rather than disprove, the existence of a plan.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 113 N.C. App. 605 - State v. Jacob

2. “Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake, entrapment or accident.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Frazier

3. “of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Frazier