116 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Figured’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2012
6 federal appellate · 16 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 Barker v. Wingo · State v. Earnhardt · 89 N.C. App. 584 - State v. Jones · 89 N.C. App. 212 - State v. Bailey · State v. Hall
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant’s reliance on [Trent and Parker] to support his argument is misplaced. Those cases did not hold that an expert’s opinion that a child had been sexually abused was inadmissible because it merely attests to the truthfulness of the child witness. Rather, in those cases the Court found the opinions inadmissible because the State failed to lay sufficient foundation for the opinions.”
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.