146 N.C. App. 532 - State v. Skipper’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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

1. “In order to establish ineffective assistance of counsel, a defendant must establish (1) that his attorney’s performance fell below an objective standard of reasonableness; and (2) that the defend ant was prejudiced by his attorney s performance to the extent there exists a reasonable probability that the result of the trial would have been different absent the error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 153 N.C. App. 546 - State v. O'HANLAN

2. “The right of self-defense is only available, however, to a person who is without fault, and if a person voluntarily, that is aggressively and willingly, enters into a fight, he cannot invoke the doctrine of self-defense unless he first abandons the fight, withdraws from it and gives notice to his adversary that he has done so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 680 - State v. Canady