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← 286 N.C. 140 - State v. Edwards

State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
1
states following
April 1984
most recently cited

36 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Goines · State v. Overman · State v. Waddell · State v. McNeil · State v. Bryant

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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““ . . . take the evidence for the State as true, to give to the State the benefit of every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom and to resolve in the favor of the State all conflicts, if any, therein.” (Citations omitted.) State v. Edwards, 286 N.C. 140, 145 , 209 S.E. 2d 789, 792 (1974).”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “[t]he term `reasonable doubt' is more easily understood than defined.”
    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.