190 N.C. App. 458 - State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

39 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A hearing to revoke a defendant's probationary sentence only requires that the evidence be such as to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation or that the defendant has violated without lawful excuse a valid condition upon which the sentence was suspended. The judge's finding of such a violation, if supported by competent evidence, will not be overturned absent a showing of manifest abuse of discretion.”

   13 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 134 - State v. Melton · 242 N.C. App. 384 - State v. Ingram

2. “the State is not required to establish that a defendant owned or leased the premises on which contraband is found in order to prove control of such premises by defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Waddell

3. “The judge's finding of such a violation, if supported by competent evidence, will not be overturned absent a showing of manifest abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 246 N.C. App. 139 - State v. Johnson