163 N.C. App. 235 - State v. Little’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “An after-the-fact assertion by the defendant that his intention to commit a felony was formed after he broke and entered is not enough to warrant an instruction on the lesser-included offense of misdemeanor breaking or entering unless there is some before the fact evidence to which defendant's statements afterwards could lend credence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jenkins

2. “The weight given aggravating factors is within the sound discretion of the sentencing judge and should not be re-evaluated by the appellate courts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 195 N.C. App. 131 - State v. Doster

3. “there was no 'before-the-fact evidence' to support [the] defendant's statement that he did not intend to use the bat”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jenkins