State v. Presson’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Lawrence · 186 N.C. App. 57 - State v. Smith · State v. Rose · State v. Ashe · State v. Crawford
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the lack of injuries to [the] defendant, compared to the nature and severity of the wounds on [the victim] at his death, [was] sufficient evidence from which a jury could find that [the] defendant was the aggressor or that [the] defendant used excessive force.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he burden is upon the State to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did not act in self-defense[.]”
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.