87 N.C. App. 137 - State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The court is required to instruct the jury as to a lesser included offense only when there is evidence from which the jury could find that such lesser offense was committed. Voluntary manslaughter is a lesser included offense of murder and is defined as the unlawful killing of a human being without malice, premeditation or deliberation. Killing another while under the influence of passion or in the heat of blood produced by adequate provocation is voluntary manslaughter. To reduce the crime of murder to voluntary manslaughter, the defendant must either rely on evidence presented by the State or assume a burden to go forward with or produce some evidence of all elements of heat of passion on sudden provocation.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 517 - State v. Abrams · 174 N.C. App. 841 - State v. Whittington

2. “Substantial evidence is `such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 166 N.C. App. 517 - State v. Abrams