State v. Glover’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

50 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Defendant moved for a directed verdict of not guilty. This motion challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to go to the jury. S. v. Wiley, 242 N.C. 114 , 86 S.E. 2d 913 . ‘ . . . (T)he objection that the evidence is not sufficient to carry the case to the jury . . . must be raised during the trial by a motion for a compulsory nonsuit under the statute now embodied in G.S. 15-173, or by a prayer for instruction to the jury.’ S. v. Gaston, 236 N.C. 499 , 73 S.E. 2d 311 . ...””

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

2. “Defendant contends that he had no knowledge that he had struck Willie Quick with a motor vehicle and that Willie Quick had received any injury. Both reason and authorities declare that such knowledge is an essential element of the crime created by the statute now under consideration, and charged in the indictment. State v. Ray, 229 N.C. 40 , 47 S.E.2d 494 .”

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

3. “The totality of the State’s evidence would permit a jury to find that just before the defendant turned over he saw a pedestrian in front of him, that he ran over this pedestrian and inflicted upon him serious injuries, that he must have known that he had been involved in an accident and had injured this person by striking him with his automobile.”

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