186 N.C. App. 343 - State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The standard of review to determine whether a trial court properly denied a motion to suppress is `whether the trial court's findings of fact are supported by the evidence and whether the findings of fact support the conclusions of law.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 149 - State v. Broussard · 202 N.C. App. 585 - State v. Bautista

2. “In this assignment of error, defendant has failed to specifically except to any of the trial court’s findings of fact relating to this motion [to suppress]. Defendant has additionally failed to identify in his brief which of the trial court’s . . . findings of fact are not supported by the evidence. Therefore, this Court’s review of this assignment of error is limited to whether the trial court’s findings of fact support its conclusions of law.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 191 N.C. App. 439 - State v. Tadeja

3. “Questions raised by assignments of error in appeals from trial tribunals but not then presented and discussed in a party's brief are deemed abandoned.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 593 - State v. TORRES-GARCIA