182 N.C. App. 365 - State v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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. “[I]f two persons join in a purpose to commit a crime, each of them, if actually or constructively present, is not only guilty as a principal if the other commits that particular crime, but he is also guilty of any other crime committed by the othér in pursuance of the common purpose ... or as a natural or probable consequence thereof.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Mason

2. “is not determined by the defendant's actual distance from the crime; the accused simply must be near enough to render assistance if need be and to encourage the actual perpetration of the crime”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Kelly