231 N.C. App. 451 - State v. Rollins’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Waller v. Georgia · Woodard v. Mordecai · 210 N.C. App. 1 - Peters v. Pennington · 38 N.C. App. 504 - Wachacha v. Wachacha · 52 N.C. App. 676 - State v. Rogers
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is well settled in this jurisdiction that when the trial court sits without a jury, the standard of review on appeal is whether there was competent evidence to support the trial court's findings of fact and whether its conclusions of law were proper in light of such facts. Findings of fact by the trial court in a non-jury trial have the force and effect of a jury verdict and are conclusive on appeal if there is evidence to support those findings. A trial court's conclusions of law, however, are reviewable de novo .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]his type of finding of fact is one that the trial court is particularly well-qualified to make, and one that we are not well-qualified to question. The trial judge had the opportunity to observe [the victim], defendant, and the other witnesses during the trial, including [the victim's] demeanor during the State's evidence up to the point of the State's motion. Observations of this sort are something that cannot be captured in a written transcript but are crucial in this particular determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the trial of cases for rape or sex offense or attempt to commit rape or attempt to commit a sex offense, the trial judge may, during the taking of the testimony of the pros-ecutrix, exclude from the courtroom all persons except the officers of the court, the defendant and those engaged in the trial of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Godley
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