138 N.C. App. 605 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Whenever a trial for a felony is in progress on the last Friday of any session of court and it appears to the trial judge that it is unlikely that such trial can be completed before 5:00 P.M. on such Friday, the trial judge may extend the session as long as in his opinion it shall be necessary for the purposes of the case, but he may recess court on Friday or Saturday of such week to such time on the succeeding Sunday or Monday as, in his discretion, he deems wise. . . . Whenever a trial judge continues a session pursuant to this section, he shall cause an order to such effect to be entered in the minutes[.] ■”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 N.C. App. 488 - State v. Hunt

2. “[u]pon motion of a defendant or with his concurrence the judge may declare a mistrial at any time during the trial. " Thus, based on the plain language of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1061, the trial court may "exercise its mistrial authority in a criminal matter only `during the trial[.]'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 200 N.C. App. 322 - State v. Raynor

3. “'term' in this jurisdiction generally refers to the typical six-month assignment of superior court judges to a judicial district, while `session' designates the typical one-week assignment to a particular location during the term”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 76 - State v. Trent