State v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis

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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. “The Court instructs you that the fact that this was a moving automobile and was being driven on the road at a time that [the student] could not have gotten out of the automobile because it was a moving automobile, without subjecting herself to injury, at the time the automobile was first in the streets there, the University Road and the other streets, or after [the student] had requested that he let her out some, I believe, according to her testimony, some ten or twelve times, and that finally when the car stopped at a stop sign she jumped out of the car when it was not being operated. (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 N.C. App. 25 - State v. McMillan

2. “We cannot say that the error was harmless. The jury had some difficulty in arriving at a verdict. On one occasion the jury returned to the courtroom [to ask a question]. . . . The case was a close one and the error may very well have tipped the scales against the defendant [on the rape charge].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 55 N.C. App. 25 - State v. McMillan