State v. Hedrick’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably State v. Williams (1983), State v. Johnson (1979)
79 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 California v. Curry · Graves v. United States · State v. Henderson · State v. Hamilton · State v. Accor
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Matters discussed in the brief outside the Record are not properly considered on appeal since the Record imports verity and binds the reviewing court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The intelligent mind will take cognizance of the fact, that people do not usually enter the dwellings of others in the night time, when the inmates are asleep, with innocent intent. The most usual intent is to steal, and when there is no explanation or evidence of a different intent, the ordinary mind will infer this also. The fact of the entry alone, in the night time, accompanied by flight when discovered, is some evidence of guilt, and in the absence of any other proof, or evidence of other intent, and with no explanatory facts or circumstances, may warrant a reasonable inference of guilty intent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he well established rule in a criminal case is that every object that is calculated to throw light on the supposed crime is relevant and admissible. State v. Woods, 286 N.C. 612 , 213 S.E. 2d 214 (1975) [, death sentence vacated, 428 U.S. 903 , 49 L.Ed. 2d 1208 (1976) ]; State v. Arnold, 284 N.C. 41 , 199 S.E. 2d 423 (1973); State v. Hamilton, 264 N.C. 277 , 141 S.E. 2d 506 (1965), cert. denied, 384 U.S. 1020 , 16 L.Ed. 2d 1044 , 86 S.Ct. 1936 (1966); 1 Stansbury, N.C. Evidence § 118, p. 356 (Brandis Rev. 1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Mercer
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.