149 N.C. App. 543 - State v. Carrilo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “rule of inclusion of relevant evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts by a defendant, subject to but one exception requiring its exclusion if its only probative value is to show that the defendant has the propensity or disposition to commit an offense of the nature of the crime charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 153 N.C. App. 641 - State v. Sexton

2. “the evil that the legislature intended to suppress by the felony child abuse statute is clearly the intentional infliction of serious injury upon a child who is dependent upon another for his or her care or supervision”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 178 N.C. App. 732 - State v. Locklear

3. “the intentional infliction of serious injuries by a caretaker to a child”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 178 N.C. App. 732 - State v. Locklear