State v. Salinas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

35 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is entrusted with the duty to hear testimony, weigh and resolve any conflicts in the evidence, find the facts, and, then based upon those findings, render a legal decision, in the first instance, as to whether or not a constitutional violation of some kind has occurred.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 603 - State v. Baskins · 262 N.C. App. 89 - State v. Bennett

2. “strictly limited to determining whether the trial [court]'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 [court]'s ultimate conclusions of law.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 852 - State v. Sawyers · 242 N.C. App. 522 - State v. Stitt

3. “[t]he [trial] judge must set forth in the record his findings of facts and conclusions of law[,]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 247 N.C. App. 603 - State v. Baskins · 242 N.C. App. 522 - State v. Stitt