166 N.C. App. 596 - State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “I was in the hall opening my door. My door was locked. I — I was at the door and she slipped up behind me. She asked me for some money. I said what do I look like, the money tree. She said— she said, you don’t like me because I’m black. I told her I don’t like whatever color she was. I opened the door and she pushed me inside. She grabbed my hair and pulled my hair. She hit me with her fist. She also hit me with a flashlight, phone and my walking stick. She hit me in the ribs with my walking stick. She took a small brown metal tin that I had some change in. I also had some change on the table that she took. I know her. She comes’up here all the time begging for money. She visits a man at the end of the hall. I don’t know her name but he might.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lewis · State v. Lewis

2. “In substance, the information obtained from a photo line-up is not very different from other evidence that is classified as testimonial under Crawford . Indeed, the photo line-up is very similar to the ex parte and extra-judicial examinations by government officials which Crawford makes clear the Sixth Amendment was meant to address.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 N.C. App. 71 - State v. Allen

3. “the information obtained from [a] photo line-up and offered at trial through [a police officer is] testimonial evidence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 173 N.C. App. 494 - State v. Moore