197 N.C. App. 154 - State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] memorandum or record concerning a matter about which a witness once had knowledge but now has insufficient recollection to enable him to testify fully and accurately, shown to have been made or adopted by the witness when the matter was fresh in his memory and to reflect that knowledge correctly.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 58 - State v. Brown · 253 N.C. App. 322 - State v. Harris

2. “We review de novo the trial court's determination of whether an out-of-court statement is admissible pursuant to N.C. R. Evid. Rule 803.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 58 - State v. Brown · State v. Oglesby

3. “once a witness denies having made a prior inconsistent statement, [a party] may not introduce the prior statement in an attempt to discredit the witness; the prior statement concerns only a collateral matter, i.e., whether the statement was ever made.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 253 - State v. Taylor