169 N.C. App. 270 - State v. Rios’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. “A killing is premeditated if “the defendant formed the specific intent to kill the victim some period of time, however short, before the actual killing.” A killing is deliberate if the defendant acted “in a cool state of blood, in furtherance of a fixed design for revenge or to accomplish an unlawful purpose and not under the influence of a violent passion, suddenly aroused by lawful or just cause or legal provocation.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 233 - State v. Stitt

2. “The trial court's broad discretionary power to control the trial and to question witnesses to clarify testimony will not be disturbed absent a manifest abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 266 N.C. App. 618 - State v. Davis

3. “failure to render assistance to the victim is a factor to be considered in giving the flight instruction”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 179 - State v. Reardon