198 N.C. App. 500 - State v. Watterson’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Morissette v. United States · Staples v. United States · United States v. Freed · Rodriguez v. United States · Rhyne v. K-Mart 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the language of the statute is clear and is not ambiguous, we must conclude that the legislature intended the statute to be implemented according to the plain meaning of its terms.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the General Assembly specifically included additional intent provisions in [certain] subsections of the statute, we can presume that it did not intend for courts to impose additional intent requirements in the other subsections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion”
1 later decision 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.