131 N.C. App. 514 - State v. Alston’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 190 N.C. App. 458 - State v. Young (2008), 156 N.C. App. 490 - State v. Bartley (2003)
84 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. Harvey · State v. Oliver · State v. Sumpter · State v. Allen · 81 N.C. App. 91 - State v. James
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Possession of any item may be actual or constructive. Actual possession requires that a party have physical or personal custody of the item. A person has constructive possession of an item when the item is not in his physical custody, but he nonetheless has the power and intent to control its disposition.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“purchase, own, possess, or have in his custody, care, or control any firearm or any weapon of mass death and destruction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“any handgun or other firearm with a barrel length of less than 18 inches or an overall length of less than 26 inches[;]”
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.