State v. Hampton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A verdict is a substantial right and is not complete until accepted by the court. State v. Rhinehart, 267 N.C. 470 , 148 S.E. 2d 651 (1966). The trial judge’s power to accept or reject a verdict is restricted to the exercise of a limited legal discretion. Davis v. State, 273 N.C. 533 , 160 S.E. 2d 697 (1968). In a criminal case, it is only when a verdict is not responsive to the indictment or the verdict is incomplete, insensible or repugnant that the judge may decline to accept the verdict and direct the jury to retire and bring in a proper verdict. Such action should not be taken except by reason of necessity. If the verdict as returned substantially finds the question so as to permit the court to pass judgment according to the manifest intention of the jury, it should be received and recorded.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 67 N.C. App. 65 - State v. O'NEAL · State v. Abraham

2. “In Count Three, the defendant has been charged with selling a counterfeit controlled substance. As to this count, I instruct you that you may determine defendant’s guilt or innocence as to this Count Three only as it relates to the alleged sale of the substance identified as State’s Exhibit 1. The State offered no evidence that defendant sold the substance identified as State’s Exhibit 1A and you should not consider such exhibit in relation to this Count Three. In this regard, for you to find the defendant guilty of this offense, the State must prove two things to you beyond a reasonable doubt. First, that the defendant knowingly sold counterfeit crack cocaine to Officer M.E. Campos of the Raleigh Police Department, representing it to be crack cocaine, a controlled substance. Second, that the substance sold was a counterfeit controlled substance.. . . So, I charge you as to this Count Three that if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about the alleged date the defendant knowingly sold counterfeit crack cocaine to Officer M.E. Campos of the Raleigh Police Department, representing it to be crack cocaine, a controlled substance, and that the substance sold was a counterfeit controlled substance, it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty as to this Count Three. If you do not so find, or if you have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things, it would then be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty of this Count Three.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 164 N.C. App. 638 - State v. Williams

3. “Voluntary manslaughter (a lesser included offense of firstjjegree murder) is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, expressed or implied, and without premeditation or deliberation. State v. Wynn, 278 N.C. 513 , 180 S.E. 2d 135 (1971); State v. Street, 241 N.C. 689 , 86 S.E. 2d 277 (1955). One who kills a human being while under the influence of passion or in the heat of blood produced by adequate provocation is guilty of manslaughter. State v. Wynn, supra; State v. Cooper, 273 N.C. 51 , 159 S.E. 2d 305 (1968).”

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