173 N.C. App. 334 - State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[Rule 2] expresses an obvious residual power possessed by any authoritative rule-making body to suspend or vary operation of its published rules in specific cases where this is necessary to accomplish a fundamental purpose of the rules . . . [and] may be drawn upon by either appellate court where the justice of doing so or the injustice of failing to do so is made clear to the court.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 N.C. App. 30 - State v. Hart

2. “having the consent or permission of the owner, or of the person licensed or authorized by the owner to grant consent or permission to access ... not exceeding the consent or permission.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 261 N.C. App. 263 - State v. Mathis

3. “it is not the role of the appellate courts ... to create an appeal for an appellant”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 254 N.C. App. 535 - State v. Johnson