State v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

26 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. “Upon defendant's motion for dismissal, the question for the Court is whether there is substantial evidence (1) of each essential element of the offense charged, or of a lesser offense included therein, and (2) of defendant's being the perpetrator of such offense. If so, the motion is properly denied.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 358 - State v. Hines · State v. Johnson

2. “[W]hen the State relies upon the defendant's confession to obtain a conviction, it is no longer necessary that there be independent proof tending to establish the corpus delicti of the crime charged if the accused's confession is supported by substantial independent evidence tending to establish its trustworthiness, including facts that tend to show the defendant had the opportunity to commit the crime.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 256 N.C. App. 339 - State v. Sawyers · 259 N.C. App. 102 - State v. Blankenship

3. “[t]he [ corpus delicti ] rule does not require the State to logically exclude every possibility that the defendant did not commit the crime.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 259 N.C. App. 358 - State v. Hines · 256 N.C. App. 339 - State v. Sawyers