136 N.C. App. 82 - State v. Broome’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[l]aw enforcement `may rightfully furnish to the players of [the drug] trade opportunity to commit the crime in order that they may be apprehended. It is only when a person is induced by the officer to commit a crime which he did not contemplate that we must draw the line.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 612 - State v. Lugo · 160 N.C. App. 310 - State v. Collins

2. “The entrapment defense consists of two elements: (1) acts of persuasion, trickery or fraud carried out by law enforcement officers or their agents to induce a defendant to commit a crime, [and] (2) when the criminal design originated in the minds of the government officials, rather than with the innocent defendant, such that the crime is the product of the creative activity of the law enforcement authorities.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 227 N.C. App. 170 - State v. Thomas

3. “amounts to no more than `providing opportunity,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 612 - State v. Lugo