120 N.C. App. 623 - State v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] defendant bears the burden of notifying the state and the trial court during plea negotiations of the intention to appeal the denial of a motion to suppress, or the right to do so is waived after a plea of guilty.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 142 N.C. App. 491 - State v. Brown · 243 N.C. App. 137 - State v. Harris

2. “[t]his statutory right to appeal is conditional, not absolute.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 N.C. App. 759 - State v. Funderburk · 142 N.C. App. 491 - State v. Brown

3. “Once a defendant strikes the most advantageous bargain possible with the prosecution, that bargain is incontestable by the state once judgment is final. If the defendant may first strike the plea bargain, "lock in" the State upon final judgment, and then appeal a previously denied suppression motion, it gets a second bite at the apple, a bite usually meant to be foreclosed by the plea bargain itself.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 243 N.C. App. 137 - State v. Harris · 153 N.C. App. 69 - State v. Pimental