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← 167 N.C. App. 63 - State v. Peoples

167 N.C. App. 63 - State v. Peoples’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
May 2016
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Smith · State v. Powell · State v. Earnhardt · Schwartz v. Pennsylvania · State v. Golphin

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.

  1. “You may find that a witness is interested in the outcome of this trial. You may take the witness's interest into account in deciding whether to believe the witness. If you believe the testimony of the witness in whole or in part, you should treat what you believe the same as any other believable evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he burden is on the party assigning error to show that the jury was misled or that the verdict was affected by an omitted instruction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “if it presents the law of the case in such manner as to leave no reasonable cause to believe the jury was misled or misinformed.”
    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.