243 N.C. App. 455 - State v. Jefferies’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Lawrence · State v. Wilkerson · State v. Lynch · State v. Taylor · State v. Miller
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]his Court will not assume that the jury based its verdict on the theory for which it received a proper instruction. Instead, we resolve the ambiguity in favor of the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As the evidence tends to show that there was no fatal variance between the indictment and the evidence presented at trial, we conclude that the facts in this case do not present such 'exceptional circumstances' that Rule 2 need be invoked to avoid 'manifest injustice.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“we must resolve the ambiguity created by the erroneous instruction in favor of [the] defendant. [The d]efendant is entitled to a new trial....”
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.