142 N.C. App. 298 - State v. Riccard’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2014
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Whitley · State v. Hunt · State v. Green · 112 N.C. App. 280 - State v. Najewicz · State v. Williams
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.
“Circumstances indicating good faith and the absence of subterfuge . . . have included the facts that the witness’s testimony was extensive and vital to the government’s case ...; that the party calling the witness was genuinely surprised by his reversal. . . ; or that the trial court followed the introduction of the statement with an effective limiting instruction....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Inconsistent prior statements are admissible for the purpose of shedding light on a witness's credibility.”
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.