State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Herring (1988), State v. Williams (1981)
30 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Woodson v. North Carolina · Cappaert v. United States · State v. Vestal · State v. Covington
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The force necessary to meet the latter requirement, as explained on numerous occasions by this Court, need not be physical force but may take the form of fear, fright or coercion. State v. Hines, 286 N.C. 377 , 211 S.E. 2d 201 (1975); State v. Primes, 275 N.C. 61 , 165 S.E. 2d 225 (1969). The mere threat of serious bodily harm which reasonably induces fear thereof constitutes the requisite force. State v. Burns, 287 N.C. 102, 214 S.E. 2d 56 (1975); State v. Henderson, 285 N.C. 1 , 203 S.E. 2d 10 (1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'[S]erious bodily injury' is not the equivalent of 'by force and against her will.' The latter ... is still sufficient to support a conviction of second degree rape .... A conviction of first degree rape, however, requires not only the carnal knowledge of a female 'by force and against her will' but also the use of a deadly weapon or the infliction of 'serious bodily injury' which overcomes the victim's resistance or procures her submission.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Al-Hamood
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.