177 N.C. App. 691 - State v. Summers’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Dogwood Development & Management Co. LLC v. White Oak Transport Co. (2008), State v. Beckelheimer (2012)
72 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 Viar v. North Carolina Department of Transportation · State v. Mason · State v. Riddick · State v. DeLeonardo · State v. Hunt
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake, entrapment or accident.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“`is a clear general rule of inclusion of relevant evidence . . . subject to but one exception requiring its exclusion if its only probative value is to show that the defendant has the propensity or disposition to commit an offense of the nature of the crime charged.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“An abuse of discretion occurs when a trial judge's ruling is manifestly unsupported by reason.”
3 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.