191 N.C. App. 439 - State v. Tadeja’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The standard of review to determine whether a trial court properly denied a motion to suppress is whether the trial court's findings of fact are supported by the evidence and whether the findings of fact support the conclusions of law.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 178 - State v. Bevill · 241 N.C. App. 399 - State v. Andrews

2. “Although the trial court’s rulings on relevancy technically are not discretionary and therefore are not reviewed under the abuse of discretion standard applicable to Rule 403, such rulings are given great deference on appeal. Because the trial court is better situated to evaluate whether a particular piece of evidence tends to make the existence of a fact of consequence more or less probable, the appropriate standard of review for a trial court’s ruling on relevancy pursuant to Rule 401 is not as deferential as the ‘abuse of discretion’ standard which applies to rulings made pursuant to Rule 403.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 207 N.C. App. 379 - State v. Ross · 214 N.C. App. 389 - State v. Khouri

3. “["]In this assignment of error, defendant has failed to specifically except to any of the trial court's findings of fact relating to this motion to suppress. Defendant has additionally failed to identify in his brief which of the trial court's findings of fact are not supported by the evidence. Therefore, this Court's review of this assignment of error is limited to whether the trial court's findings of fact support its conclusions of law.["] Furthermore, the appellant must assign error to each conclusion it believes is not supported by the evidence. Failure to do so constitutes an acceptance of the conclusion and a waiver of the right to challenge said conclusion as unsupported by the facts.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 196 N.C. App. 178 - State v. Bevill