171 N.C. App. 622 - State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Looseness of language and dicta in judicial opinions, either silently acquiesced in or perpetuated by inadvertent repetition, often insidiously exert their influence until they result in confusing the application of the law, or themselves become crystallized into a kind of authority which the courts, without reference to true principle, are constrained to follow.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 190 N.C. App. 542 - Petroleum Traders Corp. v. State

2. “`Jurors are presumed to follow a trial judge's instructions.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 630 - State v. Mobley

3. “unless it is shown to be manifestly unsupported by reason.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 263 N.C. App. 567 - State v. Wilson