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← 356 N.C. 526 - State v. Carroll

State v. Carroll’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

64
cited by 64 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
2
states following
July 2019
most recently cited

62 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on New Jersey v. New York · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · Goldberg v. Ellett · State v. Benson · Pataki v. Grumet

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

  1. “A plain error is one `so fundamental as to amount to a miscarriage of justice or which probably resulted in the jury reaching a different verdict than it otherwise would have reached.'”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 256 N.C. App. 596 - State v. Spinks · 196 N.C. App. 517 - State v. Amick
  2. “[d]efendant's cooperation and the information he provided were valuable to law enforcement,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Thompson
  3. “THE CLERK: Will the foreman please stand. Mr. Foreman, you have returned as to the answers to the issues and recommendation as to punishment as to the defendant, George Malcolm Carroll, in file number 99 CRS 70909 the following: As to issue one, yes; as to issue two, yes; as to issue three, yes; as to issue four, yes. Is this your recommendation? Do you still assent thereto? [FOREPERSON]: Yes, I do. THE COURT: You may have a seat. THE CLERK: You may have a seat. Juror number one, Maurice Dinkins. The foreman-juror number one, the foreman, Maurice Dinkins, the foreman has returned as its answers to the issues and recommendation as to punishment as to the defendant, George Malcolm Carroll, in file number 99 CRS 70909 the following: As to issue one, yes; as to issue two, yes; as to issue three, yes; as to issue four, yes. The foreman has returned as its recommendation that the defendant be sentenced to death. Is this your recommendation? JUROR ONE: Yes. THE CLERK: Do you still assent thereto? JUROR ONE: Yes.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Colvin v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

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