State v. Hughes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

233 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 235 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “strictly limited to determining whether the trial judge's underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the judge's ultimate conclusions of law.”

   27 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 852 - State v. Sawyers · 248 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Brown

2. “The trial court's conclusions of law ... are fully reviewable on appeal.”

   26 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 852 - State v. Sawyers · 248 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Brown

3. “[A] tip that is somewhat lacking in reliability may still provide a basis for reasonable suspicion if it is buttressed by sufficient police corroboration.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 643 - State v. Jones · 265 N.C. App. 501 - State v. Carver