153 N.C. App. 581 - State v. Strickland’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““the person engages in vaginal intercourse with another person: (1) By force and against the will of the other person; or (2) Who is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, and the person performing the act knows or should reasonably know the other person is mentally defective, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 170 N.C. App. 374 - State v. Buff

2. “[ w ] hether sexual in nature or not, [the] defendant had a history of attacking [the complainant] and asserting his physical power over her. The evidence of defendant's prior abuse of [the complainant] was relevant to prove his pattern of physical intimidation of [the complainant].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 244 N.C. App. 499 - State v. Goins

3. “If a defendant proves that a delay was particularly lengthy, the defendant creates a prima facie showing that the delay was caused by the negligence of the prosecutor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 257 N.C. App. 927 - State v. Wilkerson