133 N.C. App. 420 - State v. Nesbitt’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited
5 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Kolender v. Lawson · Parker v. Levy · United States v. Powell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the vagueness of a criminal statute must be judged in the light of the conduct that is charged to be violative of the statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen [the] charge, as a whole, presents the law accurately, fairly, and clearly to the jury, reversible error does not occur.”
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.