27 N.C. App. 130 - State v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2002
6 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. Long · 16 N.C. App. 527 - State v. Wiggins
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the question put to [State’s witness] on cross-examination was clearly as to a matter tending to show his motive and interest in testifying against the defendant. Therefore, defendant was not bound by [State’s witness’s] answer but was entitled to prove the matter by other witnesses. The State’s entire case depended solely upon [State’s witness’s] testimony. No other evidence connected defendant in any way with the crime charged. [State’s witness’s] credibility was thus the paramount matter for the jury to determine, and when the court excluded [defendant’s witness’s] testimony from the jury’s consideration . . ., defendant suffered prejudicial error for which he is entitled to a new trial. (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.