201 N.C. App. 412 - State v. Belk’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
19
cited by 19 later decisions
2
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Jones v. ABC-TV · Nooner v. State · Jackson v. Ohio
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(1) the witness's general level of familiarity with the defendant's appearance; (2) the witness's familiarity with the defendant's appearance at the time the surveillance [video] was taken or when the defendant was dressed in a manner similar to the individual depicted in the [video]; (3) whether the defendant had disguised his appearance at the time of the offense; and (4) whether the defendant had altered his appearance prior to trial."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'where such testimony is based on the perceptions and knowledge of the witness, the testimony would be helpful to the jury in the jury's fact-finding function rather than invasive of that function, and the helpfulness outweighs the possible prejudice to the defendant from admission of the testimony.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Here, the record reflects that the State’s case rested exclusively on the surveillance video and [the officer’s] identification testimony. The State offered no fingerprint evidence, DNA evidence, or other identification testimony. Further, because the witness was a police officer with eighteen years of experience, the jury likely gave significant weight to [her] testimony. [The officer’s] testimony identifying the individual depicted in the surveillance video as the Defendant played a significant if not vital role in the State’s case, making it reasonably possible that, had her testimony been excluded, a different result would have been reached at trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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