217 N.C. App. 465 - State v. Mabry’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Ahearn · State v. Jones · Electric Supply Co. of Durham, Inc. v. Swain Electrical Co. · Campbell v. First Baptist Church of Durham · Schofield v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[a] trial judge is given wide latitude in determining the existence of mitigating factors, and the trial court's failure to find a mitigating factor is error only when no other reasonable inferences can be drawn from the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“only when the evidence offered in support of that factor 'is both uncontradicted and manifestly credible.'”
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.