193 N.C. App. 236 - State v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
August 2009
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Spicer · 154 N.C. App. 737 - State v. Cates
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.
“When any person is charged by indictment with the commission of a felony under the laws of the State of North Carolina and is also charged with being an habitual felon as defined in G.S. 14-7.1, he must, upon conviction, be sentenced and punished as an habitual felon....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When an habitual felon as defined in this Article commits any felony under the laws of the State of North Carolina, the felon must, upon conviction or plea of guilty under indictment as provided in this Article ... be sentenced as a Class C felon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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