178 N.C. App. 460 - State v. Bullock’s Empirical Analysis

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16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hile the first instance of abuse may stand out starkly in the mind of the victim, each succeeding act, no matter how vile and perverted, becomes more routine, with the latter acts blurring together and eventually becoming indistinguishable. It thus becomes difficult if not impossible to present specific evidence of each event.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 195 N.C. App. 644 - State v. Cortes-Serrano · 202 N.C. App. 148 - State v. BERRIO

2. “[i]f a defendant, who is a teacher, school administrator, student teacher, school safety officer, or coach, at any age, or who is other school personnel, and who is at least four years older than the victim engages in vaginal intercourse or a sexual act with a victim who is a student, at any time during or after the time the defendant and victim were present together in the same school, but before the victim ceases to be a student, . . . except when the defendant is lawfully married to the student.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 202 N.C. App. 148 - State v. BERRIO

3. “[t]he appellate courts of this State have declined to reverse convictions based on closing arguments referring to defendants [as 'vile', 'amoral', 'wicked', and 'evil'] or similar language.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 266 N.C. App. 193 - State v. Cagle