164 N.C. App. 120 - State v. Borders’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “made no specific mention of any particular element of the offense charged or that defendant had admitted robbing [the victim] with a dangerous weapon - only that the evidence tended to show an admission by defendant of 'one or more facts relating to the crime charged[.]'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 760 - State v. Byers

2. “is unnecessary because it is clear that a defendant does 'not want the [trial] court to find [an] aggravating factor and the [trial] court kn[ows] or should ... know[ ] it'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 256 N.C. App. 124 - State v. Meadows

3. “[I]n order for an aggravating factor to be reasonably related to the purposes of sentencing it must be reasonably related to the crime for which defendant was convicted.”

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