186 N.C. App. 182 - State v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 190 N.C. App. 102 - State v. Baskin (2008), 213 N.C. App. 481 - State v. Wade (2011)
29 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 · Payne v. Tennessee · Booth v. Maryland · Jenkins v. Anderson · Daughtry v. United States
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ [breaking is defined as any act of force, however slight, employed to effect an entrance through any usual or unusual place of ingress, whether open, partly open, or closed. A breaking may be actual or constructive. A defendant has made a constructive breaking when another person who is acting in concert with the defendant actually makes the opening. Acting in concert means that the defendant is present at the scene of the crime and acts together with another who does the acts necessary to constitute the crime pursuant to a common plan or purpose to commit the crime.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“the effect of a crime on a victim's family often has no tendency to prove whether a particular defendant committed a particular criminal act against a particular victim; therefore victim impact evidence is usually irrelevant during the guilt-innocence phase of a trial and must be excluded.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“includ[ing] evidence of physical, psychological, or emotional injury, or economic or property loss suffered by the victim. Victim impact evidence also includes evidence of the effect of the crime on the victim's family, including the psychological and financial effect.”
2 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.