State v. Sneed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The excluded evidence tended to show that Joe Reid, a specific person other than the defendant, robbed Tripp’s Service Station and killed [the victim]. Since all of the evidence tended to show that only one person committed the robbery and murder, [the] testimony implicating Joe Reid was also inconsistent with the guilt of the defendant. Therefore, the excluded testimony was relevant and admissible as substantive evidence.”

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

2. ““Rule 803(3) allows the admission of a hearsay statement of a then-existing intent to engage in a future act.” State v. McElrath, 322 N.C. 1, 17 , 366 S.E.2d 442, 451 (1988). Therefore, [the witness’] testimony as to Reid’s declaration that he wanted to go rob Tripp’s Service Station was admissible as evidence of Reid’s then-existing intent to engage in a future act.”

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

3. “[W]here the evidence is proffered to show that someone other than the defendant committed the crime charged, admission of the evidence must do more than create mere conjecture of another’s guilt in order to be relevant. Such evidence must (1) point directly to the guilt of some specific person, and (2) be inconsistent with the defendant’s guilt.”

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