State v. Hooks’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 22 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘[t]he charge of the court must be read as a whole ... , in the same connected way that the judge is supposed to have intended it and the jury to have considered it. . . .’ It will be construed contextually, and isolated portions will not be held prejudicial when the charge as [a] whole is correct. If the charge presents the law fairly and clearly to the jury, the fact that some expressions, standing alone, might be considered erroneous will afford no grounds for reversal.””

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 163 N.C. App. 676 - State v. Maniego · 220 N.C. App. 37 - State v. Foye

2. “not a mere possible or an academic or a forced doubt because there are few things in human experience which are beyond a shadow of a doubt or which are beyond all doubt. Nor is it a doubt suggested by the ingenuity of counsel or even by the ingenuity of your own mind not legitimately warranted by the evidence and testimony properly before you here in this case. . . . A reasonable doubt is a doubt based on reason and common sense arising out of some or all the evidence that's been presented or lack or insufficiency of the evidence, as the case may be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 193 N.C. App. 611 - State v. Tomlin

3. “trial court gave [a] defendant numerous opportunities to object to the jury instructions outside the presence of the jury, and each time [the] defendant indicated his satisfaction with the trial court's instructions,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 258 N.C. App. 306 - State v. Harding