26 N.C. App. 159 - State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Morgan (1986), 202 N.C. App. 291 - State v. Jenkins (2010)
26 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. . Ellerbe · State v. Miller · State v. . Marshall · State v. . Bryant · State v. . Terrell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . that the jury was more discriminating than the judge and ignored the erroneous instruction while applying the correct one.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In general one may kill in defense of another if one [reasonably] believes it to be necessary to prevent death or great bodily harm to the other ... to be judged by the jury in light of the facts and circumstances as they appeared to the defender at the time of the killing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the burden was on the defendant to satisfy [the jury] that he was not the aggressor.”
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.