159 N.C. App. 534 - State v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis

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24 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]n the present case, Officer Wilson's testimony was not that of an expert as to credibility; further, he was not invading the province of the jury as he was not commenting on the credibility of a witness. As noted above, Officer Wilson was testifying to the circumstances of the traffic stop and the reason for defendant's detention. The above testimony by Officer Wilson does not rise to the level of plain error.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 545 - State v. Bishop · 248 N.C. App. 707 - State v. Daughtridge

2. “defendant must show that counsel's performance was deficient. This requires showing that counsel made errors so serious that counsel was not functioning as the "counsel" guaranteed the defendant by the Sixth Amendment. Second, the defendant must show that the deficient performance prejudiced the defense. This requires showing that counsel's errors were so serious as to deprive the defendant of a fair trial, a trial whose result is reliable. Unless a defendant makes both showings, it cannot be said that the conviction . . . resulted from a breakdown in the adversary process that renders the result unreliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 205 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Maready

3. “'[a]t that point I knew that he was lying to me because if you've ever had a North Carolina ID whether it be three days ago, three years ago, thirty years ago, your information is in DMV files. With that name and that DOB there was no information. He had already stated to me that he had a North Carolina ID so I knew at that point he was lying.' " Id. at 541 , 583 S.E.2d at 359 . On appeal, the defendant argued that the trial court committed plain error in admitting this portion of the officer's testimony because it "intimated defendant was a liar.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 707 - State v. Daughtridge