166 N.C. App. 548 - State v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A person is guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree if the person engages in a sexual act: (1) With a victim who is a child under the age of 13 years and the defendant is at least 12 years old and is at least four years older than the victim [.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 358 - State v. Crocker

2. “(1) whether the defendant was free to go at his pleasure; (2) whether the defendant was coherent in thought and speech, and not under the influence of drugs or alcohol; and (3) whether officers intended to arrest the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 834 - State v. Portillo

3. “[t]he trial court's function is to test whether a reasonable inference of the defendant's guilt of the crime charged may be drawn from the evidence. The evidence is to be considered in the light most favorable to the State.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 243 N.C. App. 762 - State v. McNeill