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← 236 N.C. App. 423 - State v. Overocker

236 N.C. App. 423 - State v. Overocker’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
August 2019
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Brinegar v. United States · Maryland v. Pringle · State v. Cooke · State v. Hughes · State v. Smith

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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “deference is afforded the trial judge because he is in the best position to weigh the evidence, given that he has heard all of the testimony and observed the demeanor of the witnesses”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[i]t is the fact and severity of the ... accident coupled with some indication of alcohol consumption on the part of the driver that is determinative of probable cause to arrest.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “weigh the evidence and assess its credibility in a manner different from that of the trial court,”
    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.