State v. . Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 21 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Domicile is a matter of fact and intention. In ordinary acceptation, it is the place where one lives or has his home. Two circumstances must concur in order to establish a domicile: first, residence, and secondly, the intention to make it a home, or to live there permanently, or, as some of the cases put it, indefinitely. To effect a change of domicile, therefore, the first domicile must be abandoned with no intention of returning to it, and actual residence taken up in another place coupled with the intention to remain there permanently or indefinitely.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 404 - Fowler v. N.C. Dep't of Revenue

2. “[F]aced with the appraisal that the case had been tried in the main upon an unsound principle of law, we remanded it for another hearing or a new trial, as is the rule in this jurisdiction. Where a case is tried under a misapprehension of the law, the practice is to remand it for another hearing.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 158 N.C. App. 606 - State v. Barnes

3. “Where a case is tried under a misapprehension of the law, the practice is to remand it for another hearing.... This then became the law of the case.”

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