157 N.C. App. 408 - State v. McCollum’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Wilkerson · State v. Barts · State v. Wrenn · State v. Palmer · State v. Coble
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.
“When the jury convicted defendant of second-degree murder and rejected voluntary manslaughter, it necessarily found that defendant acted with malice. A finding of malice precludes a finding of either voluntary manslaughter or involuntary manslaughter. Any asserted error in failing to instruct on involuntary manslaughter was harmless and does not rise to the level of plain error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Voluntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice and without premeditation and deliberation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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