191 N.C. App. 474 - State v. Haddock’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 29 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) In indictments for sex offense it is not necessary to allege every matter required to be proved on the trial; but in the body of the indictment, after naming the person accused, the date of the offense, the county in which the sex offense was allegedly committed, and the averment “with force and arms,” as is now usual, it is sufficient in describing a sex offense to allege that the accused person unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously did engage in a sex offense with the victim, naming the victim, by force and against the will of such victim and concluding as is now required by law. Any bill of indictment containing the averments and allegations herein named shall be good and sufficient in law as an indictment for a first degree sex offense and will support a verdict of guilty of a sex offense in the first degree, a sex offense in the second degree, an attempt to commit a sex offense or an assault.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 251 N.C. App. 334 - State v. Schalow · 196 N.C. App. 650 - State v. McKoy

2. “if the illegal act or omission alleged in the indictment is clearly set forth so that a person of common understanding may know what is intended.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 262 N.C. App. 290 - State v. Booker · State v. Forte

3. “`[a] facially invalid indictment deprives the trial court of jurisdiction to enter judgment in a criminal case.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 238 - State v. Hunt · 199 N.C. App. 260 - In Re MS