166 N.C. App. 202 - State v. Hines’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 18 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “substantially affect[ing] defendant's ability to prepare a defense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Mills · State v. Jones

2. “It is a well-established rule in this jurisdiction that it is error, generally prejudicial, for the trial judge to permit a jury to convict upon some abstract theory not supported by the bill of indictment. Further, when a variance exists between the bill of indictment and the jury charge, the Court must inquire whether the variance was prejudicial error, and therefore fatal.”

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

3. “armed robbery is: `(1) the unlawful taking or an attempt to take personal property from the person or in the presence of another (2) by use or threatened use of a firearm or other dangerous weapon (3) whereby the life of a person is endangered or threatened.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 182 N.C. App. 102 - State v. Patterson