186 N.C. App. 281 - State v. Colson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
August 2012
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Blakely v. Washington · Faretta v. California · Simmons v. United States · Wainwright v. Sykes
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he United States Supreme Court has consistently held that a defendant's absolute right to testify is an inherent part of both the due process requirements of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and the compulsory process clause of the Sixth Amendment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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