140 N.C. App. 548 - State v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) In counties in which there are regularly scheduled 20 or more weeks of trial sessions of superior court at which criminal cases are heard, and in other counties the Chief Justice designates, the prosecutor must calendar arraignments in the superior court on at least the first day of every other week in which criminal cases are heard. No cases in which the presence of a jury is required may be calendared for the day or portion of a day during which arraignments are calendared. (b) When a defendant pleads not guilty at an arraignment required by subsection (a), he may not be tried without his consent in the week in which he is arraigned.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 202 N.C. App. 585 - State v. Isenhour · 177 N.C. App. 233 - State v. Vereen

2. “[T]he purpose of section 15A-943(b) is to allow both sides a sufficient interlude in order to prepare for trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 202 N.C. App. 585 - State v. Isenhour · 196 N.C. App. 178 - State v. McNair

3. “whether [defendant's] need for a continuance is based upon the same purposes for which the statute was enacted[,]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 178 - State v. McNair