153 N.C. App. 546 - State v. O'HANLAN’s Empirical Analysis

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35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[h]is testimony was helpful to the fact-finder in presenting a clear understanding of his investigative process.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kingsberry · 191 N.C. App. 422 - State v. Lawrence

2. “'[E]vidence which is otherwise inadmissible is admissible to explain or rebut evidence introduced by defendant. This is true even if a defendant admits evidence during cross-examination of a State's witness, prompting the State to introduce otherwise inadmissible evidence in rebuttal. Therefore, where a defendant examines a witness so as to raise an inference favorable to defendant, which is contrary to the facts, defendant opens the door to the introduction of the State's rebuttal or explanatory evidence about the matter.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Davis · 258 So. 3d 369 - Frazier v. State

3. “Q. There was a lot of questions here from counsel for the defendant about the fact that you didn't send [evidence] off [for scientific tests], you didn't send that off, you didn't do this or that check. What can you tell this jury about why you didn't have these things checked? A. I had a victim that survived her attack. She could positively identify her assailant, the person that kidnapped, raped, and brutally beat her. If she had died — [Defense Counsel]: Objection, Your Honor, speculative. The Court: Overruled. Q. Go ahead? A. ... I would have done more fingerprinting, more checking under fingernails, more fiber transfer, because I wouldn't have known who done it. But she positively told me who done it and I arrested him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 422 - State v. Lawrence