82 N.C. App. 749 - State v. Humphries’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`[t]he fact of the entry alone, in the night time, accompanied by flight when discovered, is some evidence of guilt, and in the absence of any other proof, or evidence of other intent, and with no explanatory facts or circumstances, may warrant a reasonable inference of guilty intent[ ]'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 165 N.C. App. 368 - State v. Cogdell · 167 N.C. App. 656 - State v. Keitt

2. “[t]he intelligent mind will take cognizance of the fact that people do not usually enter the dwellings of others in the night-time, when the inmates are asleep, with innocent intent. The most usual intent is to steal, and when there is no explanation or evidence of a different intent, the ordinary mind will infer this also.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 N.C. App. 656 - State v. Keitt

3. “State must have presented evidence sufficient for the jury to find that, at the time [the defendant] entered the residence, [he] intended to take and carry away the personal property of another without consent and with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of that property.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 167 N.C. App. 656 - State v. Keitt