175 N.C. App. 586 - State v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “when an indictment is alleged to be facially invalid, thereby depriving the trial court of jurisdiction, the indictment may be challenged at any time.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Taylor · 197 N.C. App. 232 - State v. Koonce

2. “[a]n indictment which charges a person with being an habitual felon must set forth the date that prior felony offenses were committed, the name of the state or other sovereign against whom said felony offenses were committed, the dates that pleas of guilty were entered to or convictions returned in said felony offenses, and the identity of the court wherein said pleas or convictions took place.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 232 - State v. Koonce · 188 N.C. App. 221 - State v. Moncree

3. “Our Supreme Court has stated that an indictment is fatally defective when the indictment fails on the face of the record to charge an essential element of that offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Arnold