State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury [.]”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 255 N.C. App. 449 - State v. McCoy · 243 N.C. App. 677 - Clarke, ex rel v. Mikhail

2. “The same logic upon which the Court of Appeals relied in reaching a contrary result would necessarily result in treating most of the provisions of the North Carolina Rules of Evidence as 'mandatory,' a result that would be contrary to the manner in which this Court has treated evidentiary arguments that were not supported by an objection lodged at trial for most of its history. As a result, since defendant did not object to the admission of evidence concerning the wrongful death and declaratory judgment complaint and default judgments on the basis of N.C.G.S. § 1-149, he is not entitled to challenge the admission of this evidence as violative of that statutory provision on appeal.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re E.D.

3. “As a general proposition, appellate decisions holding that a trial court erroneously failed to sustain an objection lodged pursuant to N.C. [Gen. Stat.] § 8C-1, Rule 403, tend to rest on determinations that the admission of the evidence in question served little or no purpose other than to inflame the passions of the jury.... For that reason, one of the ultimate questions ... is whether the evidence in question had any significant probative value or, alternatively, whether the sole effect of the challenged evidence was to unfairly prejudice the [party] in the eyes of the jury.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 243 N.C. App. 677 - Clarke, ex rel v. Mikhail