162 N.C. App. 64 - State v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]llowing experts to testify as to the symptoms and characteristics of sexually abused children and to state their opinions that the symptoms exhibited by the victim were consistent with sexual or physical abuse is proper.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 195 N.C. App. 598 - State v. Mabry · 188 N.C. App. 167 - State v. Quiroz

2. “information [is] related to [the witness] by a third party does not affect the admissibility of [the] opinion, but instead goes to the weight of the evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 173 N.C. App. 709 - Elliott v. Muehlbach · 195 N.C. App. 598 - State v. Mabry

3. “Upon motion of a defendant or with his concurrence the judge may declare a mistrial at any time during the trial. The judge must declare a mistrial upon the defendant's motion if there occurs during the trial an error or legal defect in the proceedings, or conduct inside or outside the courtroom, resulting in substantial and irreparable prejudice to the defendant's case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 660 - State v. Shore