6 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, unintentionally and without malice, proximately resulting from the commission of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony, or resulting from some act done in an unlawful or culpably negligent manner, when fatal consequences were not improbable under all the facts existent at the time, or resulting from the culpably negligent omission to perform a legal duty.’ 4 Strong, N. C. Index 2d, Homicide, § 6, p. 198; State v. Lawson, 6 N.C. App. 1 , 169 S.E. 2d 265 (1969).” State v. Dameron, 15 N.C. App. 84, 88 , 189 S.E. 2d 522, 524 .”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Carter · State v. Blanton

2. ““. . . On such a motion the evidence must be considered in the light most favorable to the State, and the State is entitled to every reasonable intendment thereon and every reasonable inference therefrom.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 7 N.C. App. 350 - State v. Thomas