188 N.C. App. 842 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

83 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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When, on appeal, a clerical error is discovered in the trial court's judgment or order, it is appropriate to remand the case to the trial court for correction because of the importance that the record speak the truth.”

   18 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 N.C. App. 371 - State v. Bradford · 264 N.C. App. 659 - State v. Newsome

2. “an error resulting from a minor mistake or inadvertence, [especially] in writing or copying something on the record, and not from judicial reasoning or determination.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 252 N.C. App. 371 - State v. Bradford · State v. Bunkley

3. “[t]he provisions of Rule 3 are jurisdictional, and failure to follow the requirements thereof requires dismissal of an appeal[,]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jones · State v. Sanders