State v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The jurors ... present that... the defendant named above unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did steal, take, and carry away and attempt to steal, take and carry away another’s personal property, an unknown amount of U.S. Currency and the value of (unknown) dollars, from the presence, person, place of business, and residence of Garrett Caviness. The defendant committed this act having in possession and with the use and threatened use of firearms and other dangerous weapons, implements, and means, an assault consisting of having in possession and threatening the use of a firearm, a pistol, whereby the life of Gar[r]ett Caviness was endangered and threatened.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 147 N.C. App. 693 - State v. Burroughs · 225 N.C. App. 456 - State v. Lovette