State v. Self’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Odom (1983), State v. Covington (1976)
74 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. Kirby · State v. Bruce · State v. Moore · State v. Wilson · State v. Sheffield
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . We hold, however, that the court’s prompt action in sustaining defendant’s objection to the question and in excusing the jury and instructing the solicitor not to ask further questions along that line, coupled with the court’s specific instruction to the jury not to consider the question but to strike it from their mind, was sufficient to remove any possibility of error. In State v. Moore, 276 N.C. 142 , 171 S.E. 2d 453, 458 (1970), Justice Sharp quoted with approval from State v. Ray, 212 N.C. 725, 729 , 194 S.E. 482, 484 (1938) : “. . . ‘[0]ur system for the administration of justice through trial by jury is based upon the assumption that the trial jurors are men of character and of sufficient intelligence to fully understand and comply with the instructions of the court, and are presumed to have done so. Wilson v. Mfg. Co., 120 N.C. 94 , 26 S.E. 629 .’ Accord, State v. Bruce, 268 N.C. 174 , 150 S.E. 2d 216 ; 2 Strong, N. C. Index 2d Criminal Law § 96 (1967).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The State contends and the defendant denies that the defendant fled. Evidence of flight may be considered by you together with all other facts and circumstances in this case in determining whether the combined circumstances amount to an admission or show a consciousness of guilt. However, proof of this circumstance is not sufficient in and of itself to establish the defendant's guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boyd“North Carolina has long followed the rule that an accused's flight from a crime shortly after its commission is admissible as evidence of guilt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boyd
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.