168 N.C. App. 581 - State v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 2017
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yamaha Motor Corp., U. S. A. v. Calhoun · State v. Blackstock · State v. Ward · 112 N.C. App. 280 - State v. Najewicz · 31 N.C. App. 187 - State v. Drake
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mistrial is appropriate only when there are such serious improprieties as would make it impossible to attain a fair and impartial verdict under the law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Not every violation of a trial court's instruction to jurors is such prejudicial misconduct as to require a mistrial.”
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.