169 N.C. App. 90 - State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
May 2008
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Crawford v. Washington · State v. Braswell · Modjeski & Masters, Applicant, V · State v. Bagley
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that 'in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to be confronted with the witnesses against him.' This constitutional guarantee applies to both federal and state prosecutions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Statements are testimonial if they were made under circumstances which would lead an objective witness reasonably to believe that the statement would be available for use at a later trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so fundamental as to amount to a miscarriage of justice or which probably resulted in the jury reaching a different verdict than it otherwise would have reached.”
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.