17 N.C. App. 39 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2018
13 state decisions
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.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Atkinson · State v. Frazier · State v. Muse · State v. McIntosh · State v. . Potter
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant’s contention as to this evidence is without merit. While there appears to be no prior decision in this jurisdiction directly in point, we think the validity of the evidence is supported by analogous decisions. In State v. Frazier, 280 N.C. 181,199 , 185 S.E.2d 652, 663 (1972), the court quoting from State v. Atkinson, 275 N.C. 288, 311 , 167 S.E.2d 241 , 255 said: ‘The fact that a photograph depicts a horrible, gruesome and revolting scene, indicating a vicious, calculated act of cruelty, malice or lust, does not render the photograph incompetent in evidence. . .. ’ In State v. Muse, 280 N.C. 31 , 185 S.E.2d 214 (1971), the court held that any object which has a relevant connection with the case is admissible into evidence. In the instant case the identity of the person murdered and the identity of the body found were issues for determination. We hold that under the facts presented the challenged evidence was properly admitted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheker v. State“that the segment of skin should have been photographed and the photograph used as evidence so as to minimize adverse effect on the jury[ ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a segment of skin from the victim's right leg bearing a tattoo design of a Cobra”
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.