State v. Everette’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 28 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[The State] argues ... that the trial court's finding that [the] defendant was on pretrial release at the time he committed the instant offenses comported with Blakely because [the] defendant admitted to the existence of this aggravating factor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 263 N.C. App. 532 - State v. Hinton

2. “When reviewing claims of sufficiency of the evidence, an appellate court must ... view[] all the evidence in the light most favorable to the State and resolv[e] all contradictions and discrepancies in the State's favor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 194 N.C. App. 468 - State v. Ford

3. “[I]n ruling on a motion to dismiss, the trial court must determine whether there is substantial evidence of each essential element of the crime and whether the defendant is the perpetrator of that crime.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 194 N.C. App. 468 - State v. Ford