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State v. Lane’s Empirical Analysis

1914

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
January 1987
most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 1987 · most notably State v. Foust (1963), State v. Perry (1969)

28 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The burden is on the defendant to establish such facts to the satisfaction of the jury, unless they arise out of the evidence against him. This rule has been uniformly adhered to by this Court in indictments for homicide. S. v. Quick , 150 N.C. 820 . This principle has been reiterated by us in more recent cases. S. v. Worley , 141 N.C. 764 ; S. v. Yates , 155 N.C. 450 ; S. v. Rowe, ibid. , 436; S. v. Simonds , 154 N.C. 197 ; S. v. Cox , 153 N.C. 638 ; S. v. Fowler , 151 N.C. 731 ; and formerly in S. v. Clark , 134 N.C. 698 ; S. v. Brittain , 89 N.C. 481 .”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. . Brinkley
  2. “evidence that a third party had malice towards the deceased, a motive to take his life and an opportunity to do so, and had made threats against him, and that some time before deceased was killed he went in the direction of deceased's house with a deadly weapon, threatening to kill him, was inadmissible.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. . Ashburn
  3. “The testimony of E. Hillman that the man he saw coming towards Joab Lane's house looked like the defendant, was competent in connection with the other evidence of identity.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. . Lawrence

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.