State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

75 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “If the State's evidence is sufficient to fully satisfy its burden of proving each element of the greater offense and there is no evidence to negate those elements other than [the] defendant's denial that he committed the offense, [the] defendant is not entitled to an instruction on the lesser offense.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 517 - State v. Abrams · State v. Little

2. “Where the trial court rules that a defendant has failed to make a prima facie showing, our review is limited to whether the trial court erred in finding that defendant failed to make a prima facie showing, even if the State offers reasons for its exercise of the peremptory challenges.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 394 - State v. Hobbs · State v. Barden

3. “A defendant is entitled to have a lesser-included offense submitted to the jury only when there is evidence to support that lesser-included offense.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 517 - State v. Abrams · 202 N.C. App. 771 - State v. Halley