258 N.C. App. 134 - State v. Melton’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. “[D]espite the informal or summary nature of probation hearings, the State bears the burden of presenting sufficient evidence to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bryan · State v. Walton

2. “A trial court may only revoke a defendant's probation in circumstances where the defendant: (1) commits a new criminal offense, in violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1343(b)(1), (2) absconds by willfully avoiding supervision or by willfully making her whereabouts unknown to the supervising probation officer, in violation of § 15A-1343(b)(3a), or (3) violates any condition of probation after previously serving two periods of confinement in response to violations, pursuant to § 15A-1344(d2).”

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

3. “Where, as here, the State's evidence only includes that a defendant failed to attend scheduled meetings, and the probation officer is unable to reach a defendant after merely two days of attempts, only leaving messages with a defendant's relatives, the evidence is insufficient to reasonably satisfy a trial judge that defendant willfully failed to keep her probation officer informed of her whereabouts.”

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