101 N.C. App. 71 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2018
14 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 North Carolina v. Alford · Adman v. United States · State v. Zuniga · Polyak v. Stack · State v. Allen
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.
“A detailed chain of custody has to be established 'only if the evidence offered is not readily identifiable or is susceptible to alteration and such alteration has been alleged.' If there are weak links in the chain ... these links relate to the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the evidence offered must be identified as the same object in question, and (2) it must be established that the evidence has not undergone a material change.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant never raised an issue at trial that the evidence was not readily identifiable or had been altered in any way”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Johnson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.