58 N.C. App. 631 - State v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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

1. “[T]he purpose of G.S. 90-95(h)(3) would not be served — indeed, it would be thwarted — by a more restrictive definition of cocaine than that in G.S. 90-90(a)4. Under these circumstances, we believe that the purpose of the trafficking statute must be given effect even if the strict letter thereof must be disregarded in order to do so. The schedules of controlled substances set forth in G.S. 90-89 through 90-94 and all the subsections of G.S. 90-95 deal with the same subject matter, violations of the Controlled Substances Act. Statutes dealing with the same subject matter are to be construed in pari materia.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 194 N.C. App. 73 - State v. Conway

2. “The purpose behind [the trafficking statute] is to deter trafficking in large amounts of certain controlled substances. Our legislature has determined that certain amounts of controlled substances and certain amounts of mixtures containing controlled substances indicate an intent to distribute on a large scale.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Brandon