189 N.C. App. 705 - State v. Daniels’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[E]vidence of a victim's awareness of prior crimes allegedly committed by the defendant may be admitted to show that the victim's will had been overcome by her fears for her safety where the offense in question requires proof of lack of consent or that the offense was committed against the will of the victim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 194 N.C. App. 374 - State v. MAYSONET

2. “At the resentencing hearing, the trial court may 1) arrest judgment on the first-degree kidnapping conviction and resentence defendant for second-degree kidnapping, or 2) arrest judgment on the first-degree rape conviction and resentence defendant on the first-degree kidnapping conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 350 - State v. Daniels

3. “[w]here the jury is presented with more than one theory upon which to convict a defendant and does not specify which one it relied upon to reach its verdict, '[s]uch a verdict is ambiguous and should be construed in favor of [the] defendant.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 251 N.C. App. 463 - State v. Lail