166 N.C. App. 401 - State v. Young’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. ““Now, if you go to trial and he’s convicted, I’ll be perfectly honest with you, I’m not going to sentence him — I doubt I would sentence him in the aggravated range. I may, but it just depends upon how bad it is, but he definitely would probably get a sentence in the — he would definitely get a sentence in the presumptive range. I probably wouldn’t go back to the mitigated range since I’m offering this now prior to trial, but I’ll let you think about it, unless you already know that he’s not interested in it.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 N.C. App. 613 - State v. Crawford · 205 N.C. App. 490 - State v. Pinkerton

2. “explain the subsequent conduct of the person to whom the statement was directed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 195 N.C. App. 786 - State v. Land

3. “`if you pled straight up I'd sentence you at the bottom of the mitigated range,'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 205 N.C. App. 490 - State v. Pinkerton