253 N.C. App. 574 - State v. Martinez’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 8 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 (McCarran-Walter))
Relies on State v. Odom · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Lawrence · State v. Gaines · State v. Lynch
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.
“[A] reviewing court is to determine whether a disjunctive jury instruction constituted reversible error, without being required in every case to assume that the jury relied on the inappropriate theory.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Rather than] assuming that the jury relied on the [improper] theory ..., [the Court] cited the overwhelming evidence supporting the other kidnapping theories ... to conclude that the defendant failed to show that, absent the error, the jury would have returned a different verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“failed to meet his burden of showing that the trial court's inclusion of 'analingus' in the jury instruction had any probable impact on the jury's verdict[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.