21 N.C. App. 640 - State v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably 89 N.C. App. 372 - State v. Rowland (1988), 39 N.C. App. 256 - State v. Roper (1978)
26 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. Bailey · State v. Owens
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he mere contention that the jury might accept the State's evidence in part and might reject it in part is not sufficient to require submission to the jury of a lesser offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Equally well recognized is the rule that the court is not required to submit to the jury the question of defendant’s guilt of a lesser degree of the crime charged in the indictment when the State’s evidence is positive as to each and every element of the crime charged and there is no conflicting evidence relating to any element of the charged crime. (Citations omitted.)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he mere contention that the jury might accept the State's evidence that defendant robbed . . . [the victim], but might reject the State's evidence that defendant used or threatened to use the [blade] does not require the submission of the offense of common law robbery to the jury.”
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.