150 N.C. App. 442 - State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 2016
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Andreas v. United States · State v. Wallace · State v. Brown · State v. Barts · 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While it is permissible to convict a defendant of a lesser degree of the crime charged in the indictment, ... an indictment will not support a conviction for an offense more serious than that charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court lacks subject matter jurisdiction to try, or enter judgment on, an offense based on an indictment that only charges a lesser-included offense.”
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.