130 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Qualls’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2017
24 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. Smith · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Wilkerson · State v. McKinney · State v. Lang
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All that is required to indict a defendant for felonious child abuse is an allegation that the defendant was the parent or guardian of the victim, a child under the age of 16, and that the defendant intentionally inflicted any serious injury upon the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]here [are] a number of findings on [the victim’s] exam . . . that are consistent with a shaking type injury, one of the most remarkable of those being that the hemorrhages, or bleeding, that was seen ... in the back of. . . the eye or on the retina.. . That, along with the evidence of head trauma and the fractures that were seen on a brain scan and swelling of the brain, taken together, were evidence that. . . this baby had suffered a severe injury and possibly some shaking to cause that swelling . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a variance which is not essential is not fatal to the charged offense.”
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.