150 N.C. App. 211 - State v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] violation of the defendant’s rights under the Constitution of the United States is prejudicial unless the appellate court finds that it was harmless beyond a reasonable doubt. The burden is upon the State to demonstrate, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the error was harmless.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 280 - State v. Alford · 216 N.C. App. 436 - State v. Barrow

2. “had a small bruise between his right eyebrow and the hairline, which was about a quarter of an inch in size, then he had a smaller one than that, a small little bruise right at the corner of his eyebrow on the right side. He also had a small little bruise on the left side. Looking through the hair, I could actually see that there was some bruising of the scalp on the right and left side in the hair, farther back on the forehead, both on the right and the left side.”

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

3. “We find that Officer Varner interrogated defendant because the question `How?' is the type of question that necessarily invites a response. The officer's question was designed for the purpose of eliciting a response he knew or should have known was reasonably likely to beincriminating.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 280 - State v. Alford