206 N.C. App. 458 - State v. Ligon’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
November 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Negron v. United States · State v. Fritsch · Gaydos v. National Union Fire Insurance · State v. Barnes · State v. Crawford
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]pening the door refers to the principle that where one party introduces evidence of a particular fact, the opposing party is entitled to introduce evidence in explanation or rebuttal thereof, even though the rebuttal evidence would be incompetent or irrelevant had it been offered initially.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the law wisely permits evidence not otherwise admissible to be offered to explain or rebut evidence elicited by the defendant himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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