131 N.C. App. 48 - State v. Grice’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably State v. Rich (2000), 138 N.C. App. 252 - State v. McAllister (2000)
30 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. Vause · State v. Lynch · State v. Gibbs · State v. White · Robinson v. Texas
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a positive concept of express hatred, ill-will or spite, sometimes called actual, express or particular malice”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In making its determination, the trial court must consider all evidence admitted, whether competent or incompetent, in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of every reasonable inference and resolving any contradictions in its favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“North Carolina courts consistently have held that evidence of prior acts and convictions are admissible under Rule 404(b) as evidence of malice to support a second-degree murder 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.