225 N.C. App. 170 - State v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 2 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[T]he defendant, a male person, has been charged with assault on a female on April 9th, 2010. An assault is an overt act or an attempt to do some immediate physical injury to the person of another. For you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must prove three things beyond a reasonable doubt. First, that the defendant intentionally assaulted the alleged victim. Second, that the alleged victim was a female person. And, third, that the defendant was a male person at least eighteen years of age.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Vinson

2. “In criminal cases, an issue that was not preserved by objection noted at trial and that is not deemed preserved by rule or law without any such action nevertheless may be made the basis of an issue presented on appeal when the judicial action questioned is specifically and distinctly contended to amount to plain error.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 825 - State v. Sellers

3. “(1) defendant was convicted of two previous misdemeanor assaults 2 ...; (2) defendant assaulted [a female] ...; and (3) the assaults caused physical injuries.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 825 - State v. Sellers