137 N.C. App. 221 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

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33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Plain error is an error which was “so fundamental as to amount to a miscarriage of justice or which probably resulted in the jury reaching a different verdict than it otherwise would have reached.” To prevail under a plain error analysis, a defendant must establish not only that the trial court committed error, but that absent the error, the jury probably would have reached a different result.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 154 N.C. App. 148 - State v. Perkins · 187 N.C. App. 813 - State v. Buck

2. “our courts have repeatedly found admissible under Rule 803(3) a declarant's statements of fact that indicate her state of mind, even if they do not explicitly contain an accompanying statement of the declarant's state of mind.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 146 N.C. App. 113 - State v. Patterson

3. “[a] statement of the declarant's then existing state of mind, emotion, sensation, or physical condition ... but not including a statement of memory or belief to prove the fact remembered or believed....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 146 N.C. App. 113 - State v. Patterson