137 N.C. App. 403 - State v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2021
12 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 Faretta v. California · Hamling v. United States · Jones v. United States · Bowsher v. Merck & Co. · Pope v. Nebraska
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.
“'[W]hen the prosecuting attorney does not go outside of the record and his characterizations of the defendant are supported by evidence, the defendant is not entitled to a new trial by reason of being characterized in uncomplimentary terms in the argument.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'On appeal, particular prosecutorial arguments are not viewed in an isolated vacuum,' but are considered in context based upon the underlying facts and circumstances.”
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.