151 N.C. App. 742 - State v. McCarn’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Housing Authority of City of Salisbury · 86 N.C. App. 196 - State v. Vikre · 145 N.C. App. 237 - State v. Coronel · State v. Thomas · 121 N.C. App. 517 - North Carolina Department of Human Resources v. Weaver
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.
“An abuse of discretion results when an act is not done according to reason or judgment, but depending upon the will alone and done without reason.”
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.