110 N.C. App. 217 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2016
24 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 Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · Robertson v. Methow Valley Citizens Council · Unimet Corp. v. United Steelworkers · State v. Powell · State v. Silhan
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is true that the prosecution may not comment on defendant's failure to take the stand, 'the defendant's failure to produce exculpatory evidence or to contradict evidence presented by the State may properly be brought to the jury's attention by the State in its closing argument.' " State v. Thompson , 110 N.C.App. 217 , 225, 429 S.E.2d 590 , 594-95 (1993) (quoting State v. Jordan , 305 N.C. 274 , 287 S.E.2d 827 (1982) ). Moreover, "[w]hen defendant forecasts evidence in the opening statement, the State is permitted to comment upon the lack of evidence supporting such a forecast in closing argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.