54 N.C. App. 366 - State v. Young’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “... I believe the procedure used in this case, whereby the defendant was exposed to conviction for an offense requiring proof of fewer elements without the corresponding benefit of being exposed to a lesser potential penalty if convicted of that offense, is inherently unfair and violates the defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and under Article I § 19 of the Constitution of North Carolina... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 479 So. 2d 1097 - Sanders v. State

2. “It is not required that an indictment charging the felonious taking of goods from the person of another by the use of force aver that the taking was with the intent to convert the personal property to the defendant's own use ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 182 N.C. App. 102 - State v. Patterson

3. “While larceny from the person does carry the same penalty as common law robbery, the North Carolina courts have treated larceny from the person as a lesser included offense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 479 So. 2d 1097 - Sanders v. State