174 N.C. App. 459 - State v. Dent’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. “By including the term ‘on the premises of’ in its description of the restricted area, the legislature plainly intended that N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95 (e)(9) should extend beyond the bounds of the ‘lockup’ area of a local confinement facility, including to those secured areas in which arrestees are temporarily detained for search, booking, and other purposes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 N.C. App. 221 - State v. Moncree

2. ““[t]he canon in favor of strict construction [of criminal- statutes] is not an inexorable command to override common sense and evident statutory purpose. . . . Nor does it demand that a statute be given the ‘narrowest meaning’; it is satisfied if the words are given their fair meaning in accord with the manifest intent of the lawmakers.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 N.C. App. 408 - State v. Tyson

3. “`the definition of interrogation can extend only to words or actions on the part of police officers that they should have known were reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 198 N.C. App. 705 - State v. Reid