188 N.C. App. 286 - State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Hunt · Simmons v. City of Shreveport Code Enforcement Bureau · State v. Snyder · In Re Dockeray, Ante, P. 925 · State v. Silas
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.
“the fact that the defendant has been previously convicted of an offense raises an offense of lower grade to one of higher grade and thereby becomes an element of the latter, an indictment or information for the higher offense may not allege the previous conviction,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brice“he [or she] may admit the previous conviction alleged, deny it, or remain silent,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brice“arraign the defendant upon the special indictment or information”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brice
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.