State v. Lotharp’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The instructions clearly required the jury to find that defendant assaulted the victim using a deadly weapon, thereby inflicting serious injury. Accordingly, there was no ambiguity as to whether or not the jury unanimously found each necessary element for the crime of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury .... Because the instructions in the instant case allowed the jury to convict defendant of a single wrong by alternative means . . . the instructions were not fatally ambiguous.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 161 N.C. App. 224 - State v. Coleman

2. “The trial court, however, did issue a limiting instruction for all three convictions directing the jury to consider only the convictions relating to the habitual felon proceeding. Defendant has failed to show that the admission of the irrelevant felonies unfairly prejudiced the outcome ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. King