131 N.C. App. 11 - State v. Allred’s Empirical Analysis

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16 state decisions

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

1. “[her] removal to the back of the store was an inherent and integral part of the attempted armed robbery. To accomplish defendant’s objective of obtaining drugs it was necessary that either Mr. Stewart [the store owner] or Ms. Sasser go to the back of the store to the prescription counter and open the safe. . . . Ms. Sasser’s removal was a mere technical asportation and insufficient to support conviction for a separate kidnapping offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 149 N.C. App. 563 - State v. Robertson

2. “The key question here is whether the kidnapping charge is supported by evidence from which a jury could reasonably find that the necessary restraint for kidnapping “exposed [the victim] to greater danger than that inherent in the armed robbery itself,.. . [or] is ... subjected to the kind of danger and abuse the kidnapping statute was designed to prevent.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 162 N.C. App. 419 - State v. Escoto