122 N.C. App. 666 - State v. Dalton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Tirado (2004), State v. Tirado (2004)
25 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. McKinney · State v. Olson · State v. Porter · State v. Wells · State v. Richardson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he taking of the purse occurred while [the victim] was asleep ... [and,] therefore, she could not have known of the presence of the knife and could not have been induced by it to part with her purse”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order for an armed robbery to occur, the use of force must be such as to induce the victim to part with the property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A criminal conspiracy is an agreement between two or more persons to do an unlawful act or do a lawful act in an unlawful way or by unlawful means. In order for a defendant to be found guilty of a conspiracy, it must be established by competent evidence that the defendant entered into an unlawful confederation for the criminal purposes alleged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sergakis
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.