156 N.C. App. 318 - State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Braswell · Burgess v. Your House of Raleigh, Inc. · State v. Fair · In re Maciel
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]here the alleged deadly weapon and the manner of its use are of such character as to admit of but one conclusion, the question as to whether or not it is deadly . . . is one of law, and the Court must take the responsibility of so declaring.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medlin“An instrument which is likely to produce death or great bodily harm under the circumstances of its use is properly denominated a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Medlin
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.