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← 287 N.C. 536 - State v. Lee

State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis

1975

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 2018

20 state decisions

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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. Lampkins · State v. McCoy · State v. . Vinson · State v. Knight · State v. Duncan

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

  1. “[e]vidence which merely shows it possible for the fact in issue to be as alleged, or which raises a mere conjecture that it was so ... should not be left to the jury.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “where the trial court in a criminal case permits the jury to return a verdict of guilty upon a legal theory or a state of facts not supported by the evidence it is prejudicial error entitling the defendant to a new trial”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “together with all other facts and circumstances ... to ... show ... a consciousness of guilt”
    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.