173 N.C. App. 620 - State v. Belcher’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Although we note that the trial court is required to make findings of fact demonstrating that it considered the evidence offered at a probation revocation hearing, we also note that "[i]t would not be reasonable to require that [the trial court] make specific findings of fact on each of [the] defendant's allegations tending to justify his breach of conditions."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 202 N.C. App. 149 - State v. Millsap

2. “Therefore, although we encourage trial courts to be `explicit in [their] findings by stating that [they] ha[ve] considered and evaluated [the] defendant's evidence . . . and found it insufficient to justify breach of the probation condition, [a] failure to do so does not constitute an abuse of discretion.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 202 N.C. App. 149 - State v. Millsap

3. “the evidence [need only] be such as to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation or that the defendant has violated without lawful excuse a valid condition upon which the sentence was suspended.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 591 - State v. Grice