178 N.C. App. 565 - State v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

31 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' Erroneous admission of evidence may be harmless where there is an abundance of other competent evidence to support the state's primary contentions, or where there is overwhelming evidence of [the] defendant's guilt,'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 790 - State v. Chance · 201 N.C. App. 592 - State v. McIntyre

2. “Although a trial court's rulings on relevancy are not discretionary and we do not review them for an abuse of discretion, we give them great deference on appeal.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Smith · 201 N.C. App. 592 - State v. McIntyre

3. “[e]vidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts . . . [may] be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake, entrapment or accident.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 592 - State v. McIntyre · 220 N.C. App. 342 - State v. LAUREAN