State v. Roseboro’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

69 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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'not only that there was error, but that absent the error, the jury probably would have reached a different result.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 177 N.C. App. 539 - State v. Carter · 187 N.C. App. 305 - State v. Britt

2. “A criminal defendant is entitled to introduce evidence of his good character, thereby placing his character at issue. The State in rebuttal can then introduce evidence of defendant’s bad character. Such evidence offered by the defendant or the prosecution in rebuttal must be a pertinent trait of his character.. . . Defendant placed his character at issue by having members of his family testify about his reputation for nonviolence or peacefulness, a pertinent trait of his character. In accordance with Rule 405(a), the prosecutor then cross-examined these witnesses about whether they knew of or had heard any accusations that defendant had hit or been violent toward his wife. Defendant argues that the prosecutor failed to limit his inquiry only to specific instances of misconduct by defendant by asking very general questions about whether the witnesses knew about any violence in the marriage or allegations of violence. Given that defendant’s character witnesses testified that defendant was not a violent person, the prosecution was entitled to probe their knowledge of defendant’s violence in his marriage. Such an inquiry was directed at specific instances of defendant’s misconduct in the context of his marriage, not just general charges of violent behavior. On this basis, defendant’s argument that the prosecutor elicited irrelevant information concerning problems in defendant’s marriage is without merit.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 220 N.C. App. 130 - State v. Williams

3. “[Section] 15A-1214(h) [of our General Statutes] prescribes the only method of preserving for appellate review a denial of a challenge for cause. Counsel must first have exhausted his peremptory challenges, must have renewed for cause as to each prospective juror whose previous challenge for cause had been denied, and must have had his renewed motion denied as to the juror in question.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 225 N.C. App. 456 - State v. Lovette