State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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. “A hearing to revoke a defendant's probationary sentence only requires that the evidence be such as to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation or that the defendant has violated without lawful excuse a valid condition upon which the sentence was suspended. The judge's finding of such a violation, if supported by competent evidence, will not be overturned absent a showing of manifest abuse of discretion.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 657 - State v. Smith · State v. Wilson

2. “[n]ot abscond by willfully avoiding supervision or by willfully making the defendant's whereabouts unknown[.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 241 N.C. App. 657 - State v. Smith · State v. Wilson

3. “[F]or probation violations occurring on or after 1 December 2011, the JRA limited trial courts' authority to revoke probation to those circumstances in which the probationer: (1) commits a new crime in violation of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 15A-1343(b)(1) ; (2) absconds supervision in violation of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 15A-1343(b)(3a) ; or (3) violates any condition of probation after serving two prior periods of CRV [confinement in response to violation] under N.C. Gen.Stat. § 15A-1344(d2).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Smith