132 N.C. App. 440 - State v. Rich’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably State v. Rich (2000), 189 N.C. App. 640 - State v. Llamas-Hernandez (2008)
36 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. Coffey · Daughtry v. United States · State v. Wilkerson · State v. White · State v. Duboise
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which axe (a) xationally based on the pexception of the witness and (b) helpful to a cleax undexstanding of his testimony ox the detexmination of a fact in issue.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before the judge gives additional instructions, he must inform the parties generally of the instructions he intends to give and afford them an opportunity to be heard.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Officer Austin’s opinion was based on his experience as a law enforcement officer in conjunction with his observations of the circumstances surrounding the collision. Officer Austin testified that as he proceeded to the scene, he noted the posted speed limits, and when he arrived at the place where the accident occurred, he observed the position and condition of the vehicles involved. He stated that he also witnessed defendant’s behavior at the scene and described him as “giving E.M.S. quite a hard time.” When Officer Austin later interviewed defendant at the hospital, he detected a “moderate to strong” odor of alcohol about defendant’s person. He further noted that defendant’s eyes were bloodshot and watery and that defendant had difficulty focusing on the officer during the interview. Armed with these facts, a police officer with more than three years’ experience in the enforcement of motor vehicle laws and who has been personally involved in the investigations of nearly 200 driving while impaired cases is competent to express an opinion that defendant was under the influence of alcohol when he collided with the victims’ vehicle.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rich
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.