127 N.C. App. 391 - State v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2019
22 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. Earnhardt · State v. Shuping · State v. Harrington · State v. Harrington · State v. Hamm
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.
“[b]efore [a] defendant can be convicted under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 20-138.1 (a)(1), the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant had ingested a sufficient quantity of an impairing substance to cause his faculties to be appreciably impaired. This means a finding that defendant's impairment could be recognized and estimated.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Once the trial court determined that the chemical analysis of defendant's breath was valid, then the reading constituted reliable evidence”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“because the State took a voluntary dismissal at the district court on the speeding charge”
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.