State v. Lamb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “We hold that the evidence that defendant met with two other men, one of whom was armed; that the three men drove to the home of the victim; and that the three men then left the vehicle and entered the victim's home, robbed the victim, and shot him is substantial evidence from which the jury could find the robbery was carried out pursuant to a common plan to rob the victim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 202 N.C. App. 149 - State v. Hosch

2. “Where, as here, the witness has been the subject of past acts of violence and thereby has reason to fear another individual, those past acts are relevant to the issue of the witness' character for truthfulness or untruthfulness.”

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

3. “A criminal conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.”

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