177 N.C. App. 98 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[s]ince defendant neither requested the [no duty to retreat] instruction nor objected to the court's failure to give the instruction, we review the assignment of error under the plain error standard.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 763 - State v. Lee

2. “It is prejudicial error to fail to include a possible verdict of not guilty by reason of self-defense in the final mandate to the jury. This error warrants a new trial.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 104 - State v. Jones

3. “[a] comprehensive self-defense instruction requires instructions that a defendant is under no duty to retreat if the facts warrant it [.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 763 - State v. Lee