21 N.C. App. 679 - State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
July 1976
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Jennings · State v. Braxton · State v. Bryant · 6 N.C. App. 587 - State v. Clontz
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No error was committed in the instant case for the judge did not charge ‘that a reasonable doubt is a doubt based upon reason and common sense and growing out of the evidence in the case.’ It is when those words are used that it is error not to go further and add ‘or the lack of evidence or from its deficiency.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dupree
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.