State v. Gunter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) The superior court has exclusive, original jurisdiction over all criminal actions not assigned to the district court division by this Article, except that the superior court has jurisdiction to try a misdemeanor: (1) Which is a lesser included offense of a felony on which an indictment has been retumed[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 262 N.C. App. 466 - State v. Cole · 191 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Corbett

2. “in any action already properly pending in the [D]istrict [C]ourt if the grand jury issues a presentment and that presentment is the first accusation of the offense within superior court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 266 N.C. App. 223 - State v. Stevens

3. “'[I]nitiated' refers to how the criminal process in superior court began, not to what the first criminal process of any kind in any court was.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 262 N.C. App. 466 - State v. Cole