81 N.C. App. 346 - State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2017
20 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Rhode Island v. Innis · Solem v. Helm · Dutton v. Evans · Rummel v. Estelle
Most-quoted passages
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“[The agent] went to the restaurant to make a drug contact. A truck similar to one later identified as belonging to defendant's brother and driven by defendant dropped off Bowers. Rather than enter the restaurant or go about any other business, Bowers waited and was picked up by [the agent], indicating a prior arrangement. [The agent] testified without objection that Bowers said "Cara and Chris" dropped him off. The pickup then returned and pulled up immediately next to [the agent's] car though the parking lot was not crowded, again indicating a prior arrangement. Lipford entered [the agent's] car and a drug deal was discussed. Only after Lipford had gone back to the driver of the truck and returned to [the agent's] car was the deal with [the agent] finalized and the money handed over. This evidence, that the meeting with Bowers and Lipford was arranged in advance and that the drug deal was not finalized until Lipford had gone back to the truck, sufficed to establish the participation of the driver of the truck (who came to the restaurant twice) in whatever transaction was arranged. There was sufficient evidence that defendant was the driver in the testimony that "Chris" dropped Bowers off, the match of the yellow baseball cap, and the facts that the truck was registered to defendant's brother, defendant was driving it six hours later and it was seen parked at his home.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“at Defendant and Potter, Defendant attempted to flee by driving over a median and only stopped when an officer pointed a pistol at him. As we have previously explained, in satisfying the co-conspirator exception to the hearsay rule,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“an agreement to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means, whether or not overt acts occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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