196 N.C. App. 22 - State v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2016
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hardy v. Florida · State v. Ashe · State v. Lee · State v. Lawrence · Klehr v. A. O. Smith Corp.
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.
“In addition, there is error when the trial court refuses to exercise its discretion in the erroneous belief that it has no discretion as to the question presented. Where the error is prejudicial, the defendant is entitled to have his motion reconsidered and passed upon as a discretionary matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ertainly ... contradicting as [the victim] testified she was raped and that defendant committed other sexual offenses against her, while defendant testified he had never touched her inappropriately.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“cases where material evidence was requested [by the jury], [as opposed to] cases where the evidence requested was not determinative of guilt or innocence .”
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.