170 N.C. App. 692 - State v. Buchanan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[O]ur Supreme Court [has] stated that this Court may not review an appeal that violates the Rules of Appellate Procedure even though such violations neither impede our comprehension of the issues nor frustrate the appellate process.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 173 N.C. App. 144 - Munn v. North Carolina State University · State v. Hart

2. “[t]o prevent manifest injustice to a party, or to expedite decision in the public interest, either court of the appellate division may, except as otherwise expressly provided by these rules, suspend or vary the requirements or provisions of any of these rules in a case pending before it upon application of a party or upon its own initiative, and may order proceedings in accordance with its directions.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 173 N.C. App. 334 - State v. Johnston · 180 N.C. App. 1 - Stann v. Levine

3. “Recently, in Viar v. N.C. Dep’t of Transp., our Supreme Court admonished this Court to avoid applying Rule 2 of the Rules of Appellate Procedure even in instances where a party’s “Rules violations did not impede comprehension of the issues on appeal or frustrate the appellate process.” . . . Because we are constrained to follow the dictates of Viar , we must hold that Defendant’s failure to comply with Rule 10(b) by failing to renew his Motion to Dismiss at the close of all evidence mandates a dismissal of this appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Hart