21 N.C. App. 374 - State v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably 132 N.C. App. 697 - State v. Hyatt (1999), 131 N.C. App. 350 - State v. Love (1998)
31 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 State v. Johnson · State v. Higgins · State v. Phillips · 15 N.C. App. 362 - State v. Robinson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of showing the change in the desire of the defendant for counsel rests upon the defendant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In our opinion, the statute[ [1] ] does not require successive waivers in writing at every court level of the proceeding. The trial in the district court and the further trial in the superior court on appeal together constituted one in-court proceeding.”
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.