State v. Ham’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably State v. Lucas (2001), State v. Miller (1967)
62 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Beal · State v. Holland · State v. . Robinson · State v. Hart · State v. Sutton
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘All who are present at the place of a crime and are either aiding, abetting, assisting, or advising in its commission, or are present for such purpose to the knowledge of the actual perpetrator, are principals and equally guilty. (Citations.) An aider and abettor is one who advises, coun- seis, procures, or encourages another to commit a crime. (Citations.) To render one who does not actually participate in the commission of a crime guilty of the offense committed, there must be some evidence tending to show that he, by word or deed, gave active encouragement to the perpetrator of the crime or by his conduct made it known to such perpetrator that he was standing by to lend assistance when and if it should become necessary. (Citations.)’ State v. Ham, 238 N.C. 94, 97 , 76 S.E. 2d 346, 348 ; State v. Burgess, 245 N.C. 304, 309 , 96 S.E. 2d 54, 58 ; State v. Horner, 248 N.C. 342, 350 , 103 S.E. 2d 694, 700 ; State v. Hargett, 255 N.C. 412, 415 , 121 S.E. 2d 589, 592; State v. Gaines, 260 N.C. 228, 231 , 132 S.E. 2d 485, 487 .””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“`All who are present at the place of a crime and are either aiding, abetting, assisting, or advising in its commission, or are present for such purpose to the knowledge of the actual perpetrator, are principals and equally guilty.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The defendant Jean Teaster was aware of the presence of her husband, and we may assume that in all probability this defendant would have intervened had it appeared to him that his wife was getting the worst of the encounter. But this is a pure surmise based on our knowledge of human nature and not an inference of fact supported by evidence. * * * * * * The cases cited and relied on by the State are factually distinguishable. In those and like cases there was evidence of some fact or circumstance tending to establish the defendant's actual participation in the commission of the crime charged." (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Scott
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.