187 N.C. App. 140 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “a defendant cannot establish ineffective assistance of counsel for failure to request recordation of the jury selection and bench conferences where no specific allegations of error were made and no attempts were made to reconstruct the transcript. Moreover, this Court has held that a defendant cannot establish prejudice as a result of defense counsel’s failure to request recordation of those items specifically exempted from the recording statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 60 - State v. Clodfelter

2. “[m]erely presenting evidence that no trauma occurred to [the victim] is not sufficient to establish a conflict of evidence as to penetration,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 201 N.C. App. 592 - State v. Roughton