110 N.C. App. 289 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2019
20 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 State v. Riera · State v. Allen · State v. Smith · State v. Jackson · 19 N.C. App. 497 - State v. Reavis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The offense is charged in a plain, intelligible, and explicit manner; (2) The offense is charged properly so as to avoid the possibility of double jeopardy; and (3) There is such certainty in the statement of the accusation as to enable the accused to prepare for trial and to enable the court, on conviction or plea of nolo contendré [sic] or guilty to pronounce sentence according to the rights of the case.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There shall be two degrees of arson as defined at the common law. If the dwelling burned was occupied at the time of the burning, the offense is arson in the first degree .... If the dwelling burned was unoccupied at the time of the burning, the offense is arson in the second degree ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Defendant cannot complain that [he] was unaware of the acts for which [he] was charged and if anything ... benefited by the State's decision to proceed [under N.C.G.S. § 14-34.1(b) ] because it reduced [his] level of punishment from a Class C to a Class D felony.”
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.