98 N.C. App. 68 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “You are the sole judges of the credibility of each witness. You must decide for yourselves whether to believe the testimony of any witness. You may believe all or any part or none of what a witness has said on the stand. In determining whether to believe any witness, you should apply the same test of truthfulness that you apply in your everyday affairs . . . includ[ing] the opportunity of the witness to see, hear, know or remember the facts or occurrences about which they testified, the manner and appearance of the witness, any interest, bias or prejudice the witness may have, the apparent understanding and fairness of the witness, whether the witness's testimony is reasonable and whether the witness's testimony is consistent with the other believable evidence in the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 N.C. App. 408 - State v. Freeman

2. “It is well established that a request for a specific instruction which is correct in law and supported by the evidence must be granted at least in substance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 165 N.C. App. 279 - State v. Clark

3. “[T]he trial judge is not required to give the requested instruction verbatim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 165 N.C. App. 279 - State v. Clark