176 N.C. App. 159 - State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Now members of the jury, I charge you therefore, that if you find, beyond a reasonable doubt, that on or about the alleged date, the Defendant acting either by himself or acting with [sic] together with someone else, members of the jury, engaged in vaginal intercourse with the victim, and that he did so by force or threat of force, and that this was sufficient to overcome any resistance which the victim might make, and that the victim did not consent, and it was against her will, and that the Defendant employed or displayed a weapon, members of the jury, of a dangerous or deadly weapon, then it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of first degree rape, members of the jury, by acting in concert with someone else.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 N.C. App. 512 - State v. Person

2. “Similarly, the removal element of kidnapping must be an asportation that is not an inherent part of the commission of another felony....”

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

3. “[t]here was no evidence that the agreement ... consisted of more than that of robbing someone on that night”

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