State v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2006 · most notably State v. Hardy (1977), State v. Kennedy (1987)
91 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. . Roberson · State v. Maynard · State v. . Reddick · State v. . Kelly · State v. Andrews
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. In North Carolina a defendant may be convicted upon the unsupported testimony of an accomplice, if the jury is satisfied from such testimony and beyond a reasonable doubt of his guilt; and, in this case, the witness Ted Cook is what is known in law as an accomplice; and I further instruct you that his testimony as to the guilt of the defendant is unsupported by any other evidence. 2. The Court further instructs you that it is dangerous to convict a defendant upon the unsupported testimony of an accomplice; that it will be dangerous to convict the defendant in this case upon the testimony of Ted Cook, although it is permissible for you to do so if the State has satisfied you beyond a reasonable doubt of the defendant’s guilt; and that it is your duty to scrutinize the testimony of the witness Ted Cook with caution and with care and in the light of his interest and bias, if any, in the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kirby“[A]n “accomplice” is a person who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent with the principal offender unites with him in the commission of the crime charged, either as a principal, as an aider or abettor, or as an accessory before the fact. The generally accepted test as to whether a witness is an “accomplice” is whether he himself could have been convicted for the offense charged, either as a principal, or as an aider and abettor, or as an accessory before the fact, and if so, such a witness is an accomplice within the rules relating to accomplice testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘While the court is not required to give the instruction in the exact language of the request, if request be made for a specific instruction, which is correct in itself and supported by evidence, the court must give the instruction at least in substance.’ [Citations omitted.] * * * “Failure to give the requested instructions when justified is reversible error. [Citations omitted.]””
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.