185 N.C. App. 423 - State v. Ridgeway’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
March 2017
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Modjeski & Masters, Applicant, V · Schwartz v. Pennsylvania · Castro v. United States · State v. Golphin · State v. Bagley
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.
“Under the original statutes for rape and sexual offense, a plain reading of the statutes shows the legislative intent was to provide alternate methods by which the State can prove the crimes of rape or sexual offense: intercourse or a sexual act with a child under 13 or intercourse or a sexual act with any person by force and against the will. See N.C.G.S. §§ 14-27.2, 14 -27.4 (2005). In 1995, the legislature adopted a new statute extending protection to children between the ages of 13 and 15 from sexual acts or intercourse by older persons. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-27 .7A (2005). Separate convictions for these offenses, even though consolidated for a single judgment, ‘have potentially severe adverse collateral consequences.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Banks“the court must consider whether a reasonable inference of defendant's guilt may be drawn from the circumstances. Once the court decides that a reasonable inference of defendant's guilt may be drawn from the circumstances, then it is for the jury to decide whether the facts, taken singly or in combination, satisfy [it] beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is actually guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When determining the sufficiency of the evidence to support a charged offense, we must view the evidence `in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of all reasonable inferences'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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