86 N.C. App. 569 - State v. Mayes’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. “(4) The material as used is not protected or privileged under the Constitution of the United States or the Constitution of North Carolina.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 N.C. App. 624 - State v. Watson · 88 N.C. App. 69 - State v. Von Wilds

2. “Ours is a large and diverse State, and it is unrealistic to expect to find that the same standards exist throughout the State or that the residents of one part of the State would have knowledge of the community standards held in another area. Thus we hold that permitting jurors to apply the standards of the community from which they come, rather than requiring the application of a uniform statewide standard of obscenity, does not violate the equal protection clause of the North Carolina Constitution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 N.C. App. 19 - State v. Roland

3. “neither G.S. § 14-190.1 nor the judge's instructions in this case contravene the Constitution of the United States by failing to specify what is meant by `community.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 N.C. App. 19 - State v. Roland