150 N.C. App. 77 - State v. Christian’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 criminal conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act in an unlawful manner. In order to prove conspiracy, the State need not prove an express agreement. Evidence tending to show a mutual implied understanding will suffice. This evidence may be circumstantial or inferred from the defendant’s behavior. The crime of conspiracy does not require an overt act for its completion. The agreement itself is the crime. Proof — proof of a conspiracy may also be, and generally is, established by a number of indefinite acts, each of which standing alone might have little weight, but taken collectively they point unerringly to the existence of conspiracy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 208 N.C. App. 142 - State v. Sanders

2. “In a non-capital case counsel may waive a defendant's right to be present through failure to assert it just as he may waive defendant's right to exclude inadmissable evidence by failing to object.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 N.C. App. 406 - State v. Nance

3. “`the trial court must determine whether there is substantial evidence of each essential element of the offense charged and of the defendant being the perpetrator of the offense.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 N.C. App. 406 - State v. Nance