State v. Barrow’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

44 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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) If the jury after retiring for deliberation requests a review of certain testimony or other evidence, the jurors must be conducted to the courtroom. The judge in his discretion, after notice to the prosecutor and defendant, may direct that requested parts of the testimony be read to the jury and may permit the jury to reexamine in open court the requested materials admitted into evidence. In his discretion the judge may also have the jury review other evidence relating to the same factual issue so as not to give undue prominence to the evidence requested.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lawrence · 164 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Johnson

2. “[t]he issue is whether the trial court exercised its discretion as required by N.C.G.S. § 15A-1233(a). The statute’s requirement that the trial court exercise its discretion is a codification of the long-standing common law rule that the decision whether to grant or refuse a request by the jury for a restatement of the evidence lies within the discretion of the trial court. It is within the court’s discretion to determine whether, under the facts of a particular case, the transcript should be available for reexamination and rehearing by the jury.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 250 N.C. App. 698 - State v. Lyons · 201 N.C. App. 726 - State v. Boothe

3. “Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, although the Court Reporter obviously was taking down and continues to take down everything that’s in fact been said during the trial, what she’s taking down has not yet been transcribed. And the Court doesn’t have the ability to now present to you the transcription of what was said during the course of the trial.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 164 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Johnson · State v. White