178 N.C. App. 236 - State v. Ortez’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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. “Our standard of review of an order granting or denying a motion to suppress is “strictly limited to determining whether the trial [court’s] underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the [trial court’s] ultimate conclusions of law.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 253 - State v. McHone · 242 N.C. App. 253 - State v. Love

2. “has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 205 N.C. App. 470 - State v. Mohamed

3. “a defendant's waiver of Miranda rights arises under the same circumstances as the making of his statement, the voluntariness issues may be evaluated as a single matter.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 173 - State v. Ingram