State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “II. Standard of Review It is well established that the standard of review in evaluating a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress is that the trial court’s findings of fact are conclusive on appeal if supported by competent evidence, even if the evidence is conflicting. In addition, findings of fact to which defendant failed to assign error are binding on appeal. Once this Court concludes that the trial court’s findings of fact are supported by the evidence, then this Court’s next task is to determine whether the trial court’s conclusions of law are supported by the findings. The trial court’s conclusions of law are reviewed de novo and must be legally correct.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 236 N.C. App. 134 - State v. Bernard · 232 N.C. App. 80 - State v. Elder

2. “still smelled a strong odor of marijuana coming from [the] defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 797 - State v. Pigford

3. “consider[s] any challenge to the other conclusions abandoned[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cook v. Thomas