138 N.C. App. 185 - State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another, any other person 16 years of age or over without the consent of such person... shall be guilty of kidnapping if such confinement, restraint, or removal is for the purpose of: ... (2) Facilitating the commission of any felony or facilitating flight of any person following the commission of a felony[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 147 N.C. App. 247 - State v. Morris · 171 N.C. App. 363 - State v. Brodie

2. “[I]n order for the State to prove kidnapping [for the purpose of facilitating the commission of a felony], the evidence at trial must have shown that defendant kidnapped [the victim] before he shot her.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 147 N.C. App. 247 - State v. Morris · 171 N.C. App. 363 - State v. Brodie

3. “(2) [f]acilitating the commission of any felony . . . .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 N.C. App. 363 - State v. Brodie · 230 N.C. App. 50 - State v. Davis