State v. Caddell’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably State v. Hennis (1988), State v. Thomas (1978)
145 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · State v. Williams · 66 Cal. 2d 749 - People v. Wilson · State v. McClain · State v. McClain
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]utomatism ... is a complete defense to a criminal charge ... and ... the burden rests upon the defendant to establish this defense, unless it arises out of the State's own evidence....”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage““A defense related to but different from the defense of insanity is that of unconsciousness, often referred to as automatism: one who engages in what would otherwise be criminal conduct is not guilty of a crime if he does so in a state of unconsciousness or semi-consciousness. * * * ” LaFave & Scott, Criminal Law, § 44, p. 337 (1972). “The defenses of insanity and unconsciousness are not the same in nature, for unconsciousness at the time of the alleged criminal act need not be the result of a disease or defect of the mind. As a consequence, the two defenses are not the same in effect, for a defendant found not guilty by reason of unconsciousness, as distinct from insanity, is not subject to commitment to a hospital for the mentally ill.” State v. Caddell, 287 N.C. 266 , 215 S.E.2d 348, 360 (1975).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n affirmative defense is one in which the defendant says, 'I did the act charged in the indictment, but I should not be found guilty of the crime charged because * * *.'”
2 later decisions 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.