State v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 1981
20 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. Minton · State v. Simpson · State v. Bridgers · State v. Stroupe · State v. . Gause
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ... We have consistently held that conflicting instructions upon a material aspect of the case must be held for prejudicial error, since the jury may have acted upon the incorrect part of the charge, or to phrase it differently, since it cannot be known which instruction was followed by the jury. S. v. Gurley, 253 N.C. 55 , 116 S.E. 2d 143 ; S. v. Stroupe, 238 N.C. 34 , 76 S.E. 2d 313 ; S. v. Johnson, 227 N.C. 587 , 42 S.E. 2d 685 ; S. v. Isley, 221 N.C. 213 , 19 S.E. 2d 875; S. v. Morgan, 136 N.C. 628 , 48 S.E. 670 ; Strong’s N. C. Index, Vol. IV, Trial, p. 334.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Carolina v. Parks · State v. Reece““The defendant relies in part upon what is known in law as an alibi. The word 'alibi’ means to be elsewhere. If he were elsewhere at the time of the commission of a crime, of course, he could not be guilty of the commission of such a crime. The defendant’s evidence of alibi is evidence tending to deny or disprove one of the essential facts which the State must prove and that is the identity of the defendant as the person committing the violation of the law. (The defendant is not required to prove an alibi beyond a reasonable doubt or to the satisfaction of the jury. If the evidence of alibi together with the other evidence, alone or together with the other evidence, raises in the mind of the jury a reasonable doubt as to his identity as the person committing the alleged offense, then he is entitled to a verdict of not guilty).””
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.