24 N.C. App. 502 - State v. Mull’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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

1. ““ ‘By introducing testimony at the trial, defendant waived his right to except on appeal to the denial of his motion for nonsuit at the close of the State’s evidence. His later exception to the denial of his motion for nonsuit at the close of all the evidence, however, draws into question the sufficiency of all the evidence to go to the jury. (Citations omitted.)”’ State v. Mull, 24 N.C. App. 502, 504 , 211 S.E. 2d 515 (1975), citing State v. McWilliams, 277 N.C. 680, 687 , 178 S.E. 2d 476 (1971).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 25 N.C. App. 49 - State v. Logan · State v. Hobbs

2. ““It is well settled in this State that upon motion to nonsuit, the evidence must be considered in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom, and that nonsuit should be denied when there is sufficient evidence, direct, circumstantial or both, from which the jury could find that the offense charged has been committed and that defendant committed it.” State v. Mull, supra, citing State v. Goines, 273 N.C. 509 , 160 S.E. 2d 469 (1968).”

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