260 N.C. App. 629 - State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “absent any evidence that satellite-based monitoring ... is effective to protect the public from sex offenders, the trial court erred in imposing [satellite-based monitoring] on [the defendant] for thirty years.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Gordon · State v. Cooper

2. “[w]e also are bound by this Court's holding in Grady II that when the State has presented no evidence that could possibly support a finding necessary to impose SBM, the appropriate disposition is to reverse the trial court's order rather than to vacate and remand the matter for re-hearing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 267 N.C. App. 45 - State v. Anthony

3. “Decisions from other jurisdictions relied upon by our dissenting colleague-and by the State-holding that SBM is generally regarded as effective in protecting the public from sex offenders are not persuasive;”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 267 N.C. App. 45 - State v. Anthony