State v. Weston’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Jones (2000), State v. Slade (1976)
2 federal appellate · 41 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. . Cope · State v. Bass · State v. Thompson · State v. Hancock · State v. . Satterfield
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is apparent from the exemplary manner in which the learned trial judge charged the jury in other respects and the able manner in which he presided at this trial that this erroneous portion of the charge was a lapsus linguce. However, this Court has held many times that when there are conflicting instructions upon a material point, one correct and one incorrect, a new trial must be granted. Since the jury is not supposed to know which is the correct instruction, we must assume that the jury’s verdict was influenced by that portion of the charge which is incorrect.” State v. Weston, 273 N.C. 275 , 159 S.E. 2d 883 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ramey““(a) Any person who drives any vehicle upon a highway carelessly and heedlessly in wilful or wanton disregard of ' the rights or safety of others shall be guilty of reckless driving. (b) Any person who drives any vehicle upon a highway without due caution and circumspection and at a speed or in a manner so as to endanger or be likely to endanger any person or property shall be guilty of reckless driving.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Crabtree“heedless indifference to the safety and rights of others”
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.