132 N.C. App. 209 - State v. Hill’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably State v. Hill (2001), 133 N.C. App. 31 - State v. Blackwell (1999)
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 Bearden v. Georgia · Langnes v. Green · Black v. Romano · State v. Duncan · State v. Robinson
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.
“All that is required is that the evidence be sufficient to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“'an act of grace by the State to one convicted of a crime,'... a proceeding to revoke probation is not bound by strict rules of evidence and an alleged violation of a probationary condition need not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]ll that is required . . . is that the evidence be such as to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion[.] . . . Judicial discretion implies conscientious judgment, not arbitrary or willful action. It takes account of the law and the particular circumstances of the case, and is directed by the reason and conscience of the judge to a just result.”
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.