156 N.C. App. 249 - State v. Ramirez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Plain error is error so fundamental as to amount to a miscarriage of justice or which probably resulted in the jury reaching a different verdict than it otherwise would have reached. To satisfy the requirements of the plain error rule, the Court must find error, and that if not for the error, the jury would likely have reached a different result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 N.C. App. 207 - State v. Smith

2. “[W]e hold that defendant's counsel did not err by failing to move to dismiss and the trial court did not err in failing to dismiss the charge of intent to kill with regards to the assault upon [the victim].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 792 - State v. Valdez

3. “resulted in substantial and irreparable prejudice to the defendant's case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 N.C. App. 109 - State v. Whittenburg