137 N.C. App. 590 - State v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis

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28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We first note our Supreme Court has held that the [Eighth Amendment’s] prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment ‘does not require strict proportionality between the crime and sentence . . . [but] forbids only extreme sentences that are ‘grossly disproportionate’ to the crime.’ Indeed, the sentences imposed upon defendant, albeit consecutive, were within the presumptive statutory range authorized for her drug trafficking offenses under the Structured Sentencing Act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 711 - State v. Leach

2. “whether the trial judge's underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the judge's ultimate conclusions of law”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 522 - State v. Garcia