182 N.C. App. 115 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

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10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hile this evidence tends to show that [the] defendant was justifiably in fear for his safety when he drove away from his pedestrian pursuers, it does not tend to show that he was still justifiably fearful thirty minutes later after his pursuers had been left many miles behind. The coercion defense cannot be invoked by one who had a reasonable opportunity to avoid doing the act without undue exposure to death or serious bodily harm; and nothing in the record suggests that [the] defendant would have exposed himself to harm of any kind if he had stopped driving the car long before the officer saw him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 384 - State v. Badson

2. “For a particular defense to result in a required instruction, there must be substantial evidence of each element of the defense when viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 663 - State v. Burrow

3. “In order to be entitled to an instruction on duress, a defendant must present evidence that he feared he would 'suffer immediate death or serious bodily injury if he did not so act.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 663 - State v. Burrow