134 N.C. App. 637 - State v. Branch’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
6
cited 6 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
November 2015
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Gibbs · United States v. Fentress · Robinson v. Texas · 114 N.C. App. 610 - State v. Burton · 45 N.C. App. 62 - State v. Bonds
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f a judgment is invalid as a matter of law, North Carolina Courts have the authority to vacate the invalid sentence and resentence the defendant accordingly....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This letter was not a motion for appropriate relief. It was a form letter, alerting the trial court to its error in applying the law as to the sentence. Upon learning of its error the trial court vacated its previous unlawful sentence and imposed a sentence using the appropriate applicable law.”
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.