137 N.C. App. 144 - State v. Ridgeway’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' or where the error is such as to `seriously affect the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings' or where it can be fairly said `the instructional mistake had a probable impact on the jury's finding that the defendant was guilty.'”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 374 - State v. Hightower · 168 N.C. App. 595 - IN THE MATTER OF DD

2. “Defendant failed to provide a specific objection to the challenged portion of the video interview. Where a defendant fails to object to the admission of evidence,”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 374 - State v. Hightower · 166 N.C. App. 518 - State v. Lowry

3. “must convince this Court not only that there was error, but that absent the error, the jury probably would have reached a different result.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 518 - State v. Lowry · 264 N.C. App. 250 - State v. Gilbert