State v. King’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““All that the evidence tends to show is that the alleged suborned witness at one trial swore, and at another time stated, that she did not purchase from defendant the whiskey found in her possession, and that she, on another trial swore, and at other times stated, that she did purchase the whiskey from defendant. And while there is testimony of officers, admitted for the purpose of corroboration, and tending to corroborate her as to what she had testified and stated, there is no evidence of cor-robrating circumstances tending to show which statement was false. Indeed, the Attorney-General, in brief filed here, states: ‘It is true that all the evidence presented goes directly back to the State’s witness . . . the alleged suborned perjurer.’ There is no evidence of any independent circumstance. Hence, motion of defendant for judgment as of nonsuit entered at the close of the State’s evidence should have been sustained.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 8 N.C. App. 513 - In Re Alexander