29 N.C. App. 478 - State v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
July 1980
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Henderson · 20 N.C. App. 164 - State v. McLamb
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Now, members of the jury, I will give to you the law of accident, which is very simple. If Lordman died by accident or misadventure, that is, without wrongful purpose of criminal negligence on the part of the defendant, the defendant would not be guilty. The burden of proving accident is not on the defendant. His assertion of accident is merely a denial that he has committed any crime. The burden remains on the State to prove the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jackson
How this case has been treated — in progress
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