195 N.C. App. 67 - State v. Hueto’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[If you go to trial,] you are putting your faith in the hands of twelve strangers who do not know you, who do not know your situation, and if they find you guilty of the charges against both of these young girls, it will compel me to give you more than a single B-l sentence, and I would have to give you at least two . . . and maybe more.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 197 N.C. App. 630 - State v. Parker · 203 N.C. App. 151 - State v. Haymond

2. “To you, Señor Hueto, I regret that you do [sic] not choose to take the offer that had been made to you at the beginning of the trial to plead guilty for a lesser sentence. And I had told you that I did not know what I would . . . give in terms of a sentence but that I would await the jury’s verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 203 N.C. App. 151 - State v. Haymond

3. “a defendant has the burden of showing that there was a reasonable possibility that a different result would have been reached at trial if such error had not occurred.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 522 - State v. Sellers