180 N.C. App. 86 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Strickland v. Washington · State v. Braswell · Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · State v. Buchanan · State v. Conaway
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the penetration, however slight, by any object into the genital ... opening of another person's body[.] ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Any object' in this context includes ... a finger.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the party seeking to close the hearing must advance an overriding interest that is likely to be prejudiced; (2) the closure must be no broader than necessary to protect that interest; (3) the trial court must consider reasonable alternatives to closing the proceeding; and (4) the trial court must make findings adequate to support the closure.”
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.