136 N.C. App. 124 - State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2017
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · State v. Powell · State v. Mash · State v. Wright · State v. Ledford
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between evidence sufficient to carry a case to the jury, and a mere scintilla, which only raises a suspicion or possibility of the fact in issue.'”
2 later decisions 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.