212 N.C. App. 575 - State v. Edmonds’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] party must have presented to the trial court a timely request, objection, or motion, stating the specific grounds for the ruling the party desired the court to make if the specific grounds were not apparent from the context.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Keels · 258 N.C. App. 527 - State v. Bursell

2. “In essence, [the] defendant asked the trial court to do what our Supreme Court said it should not in Younger , to admit 'some distant sexual encounter which has no relevance to this case other than showing [that] the witness [was] sexually active.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 249 N.C. App. 529 - State v. Mbaya · 244 N.C. App. 499 - State v. Goins

3. “[n]otwithstanding any other provision of law, the sexual behavior of the complainant is irrelevant to any issue in the prosecution unless such behavior: (1) Was between the complainant and the defendant; or (2) Is evidence of specific instances of sexual behavior offered for the purpose of showing that the act or acts charged were not committed by the defendant; or (3) Is evidence of a pattern of sexual behavior so distinctive and so closely resembling the defendant's version of the alleged encounter with the complainant as to tend to prove that such complainant consented to the act or acts charged or behaved in such a manner as to lead the defendant reasonably to believe that the complainant consented; or (4) Is evidence of sexual behavior offered as the basis of expert psychological or psychiatric opinion that the complainant fantasized or invented the act or acts charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 244 N.C. App. 499 - State v. Goins