State v. Cheek’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

88 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “["]In this assignment of error, defendant has failed to specifically except to any of the trial court's findings of fact relating to this motion to suppress. Defendant has additionally failed to identify in his brief which of the trial court's findings of fact are not supported by the evidence. Therefore, this Court's review of this assignment of error is limited to whether the trial court's findings of fact support its conclusions of law.["] Furthermore, the appellant must assign error to each conclusion it believes is not supported by the evidence. Failure to do so constitutes an acceptance of the conclusion and a waiver of the right to challenge said conclusion as unsupported by the facts.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 418 - State v. Winchester · 196 N.C. App. 178 - State v. Bevill

2. “a juror and cause him to pledge himself to a decision in advance of the evidence to be presented. Id. On appeal, Defendant challenges numerous questions asked by Plaintiff's counsel during voir dire . We will address each line of questioning in turn. 2 Defendant first takes issue with a hypothetical scenario presented by Plaintiff's counsel where counsel asked if the juror approached a red light late at night with no traffic nearby, would the juror”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Crump · 255 N.C. App. 471 - Haarhuis v. Cheek

3. “`mind and reason were so completely intoxicated and overthrown as to render him utterly incapable of forming a deliberate and premeditated purpose to kill.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 143 N.C. App. 426 - State v. Golden · Fisher v. Lee