62 N.C. App. 585 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “That amendment, in our view, clearly evinces the Legislature’s intent to avoid the enhancement of a defendant’s sentence simply because money or other valuable items were involved in the crime charged. Bound as we are fairly to interpret legislative enactments, and charged both to divine and carry out the intent of the Legislature, we are compelled to hold that the trial court erred in considering pecuniary gain as a factor in aggravation of defendant’s sentence.”

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

2. “defendant was hired or paid to commit the crime.”

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