187 N.C. App. 308 - State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"contextually and in its entirety. The charge will be held to be sufficient if it presents the law of the case in such manner as to leave no reasonable cause to believe the jury was misled or misinformed.... The party asserting error bears the burden of showing that the jury was misled or that the verdict was affected by the instruction. Under such a standard of review, it is not enough for the appealing party to show that error occurred in the jury instructions; rather, it must be demonstrated that such error was likely, in light of the entire charge, to mislead the jury."”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 193 N.C. App. 412 - State v. Johnson · 206 N.C. App. 580 - State v. Marshall

2. “[T]o reach the level of `prejudicial error' in this regard . . . the prosecutor's comments must have `so infected the trial with unfairness as to make the resulting conviction a denial of due process.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 193 N.C. App. 611 - State v. Tomlin

3. “are to be viewed in the context in which they are made and in light of the overall factual circumstances to which they refer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 193 N.C. App. 611 - State v. Tomlin