174 N.C. App. 335 - State v. McVay’s Empirical Analysis

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14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] court's complete failure to exercise discretion amounts to reversible error.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 192 N.C. App. 258 - In re M.H.B. · 204 N.C. App. 500 - In Re Ard

2. “the record clearly shows the. trial court reasonably exercised its discretion in denying the jury’s request. With all of the jurors in the courtroom, the court stated: [‘]I am sorry but I am not going to grant your request. The jury has the responsibility of recalling all the evidence. To begin rehearing parts of the evidence by means of providing you with a written transcript would tend to emphasize certain portions of the evidence without giving equal publication to the other evidence in the case. For that reason, it would be best not to let portions of the evidence be repeated without having it all repeated because all of the evidence is important.]’] The trial court was clearly concerned that by allowing the jury to review the testimony of only one of the many witnesses heard at the trial the jury might overemphasize the testimony of Deputy Watson and not properly consider the totality of the evidence before them. . . . The trial court property [sic] exercised its discretion in denying the jury’s request to review Deputy Watson’s testimony and the denial was not an abuse of the trial court’s discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 22 - State v. Long