180 N.C. App. 403 - State v. Mims’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “representation that is free from conflicts of interest.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 518 - State v. Kingston · 206 N.C. App. 418 - State v. Khuram Ashfaq Choudhry

2. “In order to establish a violation of the Sixth Amendment, a defendant who raised no objection at trial must demonstrate that an actual conflict of interest adversely affected his lawyer's performance.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 518 - State v. Kingston · 202 N.C. App. 585 - State v. Cecil

3. “The written judgment entered by a trial court constitutes the actual sentence imposed on a criminal defendant; the announcement of judgment in open court is merely the rendering of judgment. A defendant has a right to be present at the time a sentence is imposed. Where the written judgment represents a substantive change from the sentence pronounced by the trial court, and the defendant was not present at the time the written judgment was entered, the sentence should be vacated and the matter remanded for entry of a new sentencing judgment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 175 - In re C.E.N.