State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Bryant (1972)
40 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 Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · State v. Hammonds · State v. Hammonds · State v. McKinnon · State v. . McKinnon
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . The court did not, in its charge, explain the difference between substantive evidence and corroborative evidence. Defendant made no request for such an instruction. The failure to make reference in the charge to the difference between substantive evidence and corroborative evidence and to define each of these terms is not ground for exception. Rule 21, 221 N.C. 558 ; S. v. McKinnon, 223 N.C. 160 , 25 S.E. 2d 606 ; S. v. Johnson, 218 N.C. 604 , 12 S.E. 2d 278 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Covington
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.