194 N.C. App. 734 - State v. Liggons’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2023
5 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 Lord Electric Co. v. United States · State v. Bullard · Kinney v. United States · Howerton v. Arai Helmet, Ltd. · State v. Vause
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 instrument [the defendant] used to assault [the victim] was a rock which ... was large enough to shatter the windshield, bend the steering wheel, and fracture [the victim's] skull [,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas“However, [Wood] failed to argue this assignment of error in his brief, and it is thus deemed abandoned pursuant to Rule 28(b)(6) of the Rules of Appellate Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“appropriately [ ] classed among weapons which are likely to produce death or great bodily harm”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thomas
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.