218 N.C. App. 94 - State v. Watkins’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
2
states following
November 2017
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Smith · State v. Powell · State v. Fritsch · 186 N.C. App. 57 - State v. Smith · State v. Rose
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the fact that defendant broke a window of the residence in the nighttime with an instrument — even if the instrument itself crossed the threshold — is not sufficient to find him guilty of burglary. . . . [Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the State, it appears only that defendant broke a window of the residence with an instrument to facilitate a subsequent entry. Such evidence does not support the trial court’s submitting a case of burglary 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.