244 N.C. App. 760 - State v. Springle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “may be issued in appropriate circumstances by either appellate court to permit review of the judgments and orders of trial tribunals when the right to prosecute an appeal has been lost by failure to take timely action[.]”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 N.C. App. 767 - State v. Bishop · State v. Swafford

2. “[A] defect in a notice of appeal should not result in loss of the appeal as long as the intent to appeal can be fairly inferred from the notice and the appellee is not misled by the mistake.”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Mills · State v. Battle

3. “[F]ailure to comply with Rule 3 is a jurisdictional default that prevents this Court from acting in any manner other than to dismiss the appeal.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Swafford · 254 N.C. App. 161 - State v. Dye