48 N.C. App. 649 - State v. Lipfird’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “All right, now, Members of the Jury, anything further? I presume that you members of the jury realize what a disagreement means. It means, of course, that it will be more time of the Court that will have to be consumed in the trial of this action again. I don’t want to^force you or coerce you in any way to reach a verdict, but it is your duty to try to reconcile your differences and reach a verdict if it can be done without the surrender of one’s conscientious convictions. You’ve heard the evidence in the case. A mistrial, of course, will mean that more time and another jury will have to be selected to hear the ca$es and this evidence again. I realize the fact that there are sometimes reasons why jurors cannot agree. I want to emphasize the fact to you that it is your duty to do whatever you can to reason the matter over together as reasonable men and women and to reconcile your differences if such is possible without surrendering your conscientious convictions and to reach a verdict. I’m going to let you resume your deliberations and see if you can. (Emphasis supplied.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Lipfird