169 N.C. App. 331 - State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
2
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Grayned v. City of Rockford · Francis v. Franklin · Grayned v. City of Rockford · State v. Elam · State v. Squires
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person commits the [criminal] offense of stalking if the person wilfully on more than one occasion follows or is in the presence of, or otherwise harasses another person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“directed at a specific person that torments, terrorizes, or terrifies that person,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“American Heritage College Dictionary 1428 (3rd ed. 1997).”
2 later decisions 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.