State v. Murillo’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

82 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he purpose of discovery under our statutes is to protect the defendant from unfair surprise by the introduction of evidence he cannot anticipate. " 349 N.C. at 585 , 509 S.E.2d at 759 (emphasis added). Here, defendant had no effective ability to "anticipate”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Cook · 196 N.C. App. 790 - State v. Beavers

2. “any tendency to make the existence of any fact that is of consequence to the determination of the action more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 148 N.C. App. 310 - State v. Wilkerson · 179 N.C. App. 437 - State v. Peterson

3. “Nevertheless, the participants in the hearing focused almost entirely on whether Glover could be qualified as an expert and whether testimony based upon blood alcohol concentration retrograde extrapolation had been found admissible in previous cases. Distracted by these questions, the trial court made no mention during the hearing of the discovery statutes nor of the timeliness of the notice to defendant. Once the trial court determined that the evidence was admissible, it denied defendant's motion. We are satisfied that a continuance would have alleviated any”

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