111 N.C. App. 662 - State v. Morgan’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2018
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. Harvey · State v. Mason · State v. Robbins · State v. Roseman · 81 N.C. App. 91 - State v. James
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.
“Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence that a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Again, Rule 404 prohibits the admission of character evidence for the purpose of showing that a person acted in conformity with that character trait, except that a criminal defendant may offer evidence of a pertinent character trait and the prosecution may offer evidence to rebut such a showing by a defendant. When evidence of that person’s character is admissible, character may be shown by testimony as to the reputation of a person. However, until a defendant offers such evidence of his character, the State may not introduce evidence of his bad character. In this case, the State offered evidence as to defendant’s reputation before defendant had put on any evidence, before he had “opened the door.” Thus the State could not have offered the evidence of defendant’s reputation as a drug dealer to rebut any claim of the defendant, and such evidence was clearly inadmissible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[If the] defendant was not present when law enforcement officers discovered the [controlled substance], the State [must] rely on the doctrine of constructive possession to prove that the [controlled substance] belonged to [the] defendant. A person has constructive possession of a controlled substance when “he has both the power and intent to control its disposition or use.” However, if . . . the defendant does not have exclusive control of the premises in which the controlled substance[] [was] found, “there must be evidence of other incriminating circumstances to support constructive possession.””
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.