260 N.C. App. 96 - State v. Cozart’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. “must be cautious in our use of Rule 2 not only because it is an extraordinary remedy intended solely to prevent manifest injustice, but also because 'inconsistent application' of Rule 2 itself leads to injustice when some similarly situated litigants are permitted to benefit from it but others are not.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 265 N.C. App. 279 - State v. DeJesus

2. “[i]f this Court routinely allowed a writ of certiorari in every case in which the appellant failed to properly appeal, it would render meaningless the rules governing the time and manner of noticing appeals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Swafford

3. “claim for ineffective assistance of counsel is available only in criminal matters, and we have already concluded that SBM is not a criminal punishment.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Swafford