225 N.C. App. 599 - State v. Dorman’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. “'no more can be said [of the evidence] than that it could have been subjected to tests, the results of which might have exonerated the defendant,'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Miller · 253 N.C. App. 198 - State v. Mylett

2. “In Brady , the United States Supreme Court held that suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused upon request violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment, irrespective of the good faith or bad faith of the prosecution. This includes evidence known only to police investigators and not to the prosecutor. The duty to disclose such evidence is applicable even though there has been no request by the accused.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 253 N.C. App. 198 - State v. Mylett

3. “limited to determining whether the trial judge's underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the judge's ultimate conclusions of law.”

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