State v. Bacon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[a] trial judge is given wide latitude in determining the existence of mitigating factors, and the trial court's failure to find a mitigating factor is error only when no other reasonable inferences can be drawn from the evidence.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 763 - State v. Lee

2. “Evidence necessary to prove an element of the offense shall not be used to prove any factor in aggravation, and the same item of evidence shall not be used to prove more than one factor in aggravation.”

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

3. “only when the evidence offered in support of that factor 'is both uncontradicted and manifestly credible.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 248 N.C. App. 763 - State v. Lee