173 N.C. App. 270 - State v. Lawson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2019
16 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 Blakely v. Washington · Crawford v. Washington · Ohio v. Roberts · Harrington v. California · Washington v. Harper
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any article, instrument or substance which is likely to produce death or great bodily harm.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a defendant's fists can be considered a deadly weapon depending on the manner in which they were used and the relative size and condition of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A dangerous or deadly weapon is a weapon, which is likely to cause death or serious bodily injury. In determining whether a particular object is a dangerous or deadly weapon, you should consider its nature, the manner in which it was used, and the size and strength of the Defendant as compared to the victim.”
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.