State v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

45 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(b) Other crimes, wrongs, or acts. — Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake, entrapment or accident.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Oglesby · 251 N.C. App. 886 - State v. Wilson-Angeles

2. “[w]hen evidence of a prior crime [or bad act] is introduced, the natural and inevitable tendency for a judge or jury is to give excessive weight to the vicious record of crime thus exhibited and either to allow it to bear too strongly on the present charge or to take the proof of it as justifying a condemnation, irrespective of the accused's guilt of the present charge.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Howard · 253 N.C. App. 606 - State v. Williams

3. “a clear general rule of inclusion of relevant evidence of other crimes, wrongs or acts by a defendant ....”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Oglesby · 251 N.C. App. 886 - State v. Wilson-Angeles