21 N.C. App. 421 - State v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2015
4 federal appellate · 19 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. Mundy · State v. Todd · State v. Greer · State v. . Greer · 9 N.C. App. 731 - State v. Chaney
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[a]t no place in the charge did the trial judge instruct the jury as to what the term ‘assault’ means or what constitutes an assault. An assault is a legal term with which jurors are not apt to be familiar. We think it incumbent upon the trial judge to define or otherwise explain to a jury" the meaning of the legal term ‘assault’.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The Court’s instruction to the jury on the element of intent, in that the Court did not extend its instructions to the lesser included offense of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Harris
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.