169 N.C. App. 340 - State v. Millsaps’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. “say beyond a reasonable doubt that the improper and prejudicial argument by the prosecutor, which was neither checked nor cured by the trial court, did not contribute to defendant's conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 N.C. App. 681 - State v. McCollum

2. “We submit it's 99 percent certain that [a judge] someday can and will say that, oh that conviction was six or eight or ten years ago, that's irrelevant, release him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 243 N.C. App. 124 - State v. Dalton

3. “appealed to the jury's `sense of passion and prejudice' by comparing defendant's acts to infamous events outside the record.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 N.C. App. 681 - State v. McCollum