164 N.C. App. 254 - State v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"I was impressed by [the victim's] sensory recollection. Children cannot fantasize visual and other sensory experiences at the same time and the fact that she could tell me how she felt, how she was feeling that evening, what she felt, and what she did when she realized what was happening, what [the defendant's] response was when she realized he was waking up, where they were, where the other people in the family were at the time, all of that other sensory recollection was very telling and adds to the credibility of her story."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 N.C. App. 597 - State v. Hammett · 172 N.C. App. 42 - State v. Delsanto

2. “[i]n a sexual offense prosecution involving a child victim, the trial court should not admit expert opinion that sexual abuse has in fact occurred because, absent physical evidence supporting a diagnosis of sexual abuse, such testimony is an impermissible opinion regarding the victim’s credibility.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 172 N.C. App. 42 - State v. Delsanto · 181 N.C. App. 27 - State v. Burgess

3. “My diagnosis was [that the child] was sexually abused by defendant”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 574 - State v. Martinez · 251 N.C. App. 527 - State v. Martinez