State v. Hatfield’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

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

1. “[t]he jury requested a review of the testimony of ... the only witness to identify defendant as the perpetrator. Whether the jury fully understood [that witness's] testimony was material to the determination of defendant's guilt or innocence.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 698 - State v. Lyons

2. “). In the present case, the trial court failed to exercise its discretion to grant or deny a request by the jury to review witness testimony. Contrary to the State's contention that the trial court merely made it”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 698 - State v. Lyons

3. “Our Supreme Court has previously held that a jury is likely to want to review testimony that is the only evidence directly linking [a] defendant to the alleged crimes.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 698 - State v. Lyons