State v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably State v. Barfield (1979), State v. Jones (1981)
41 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 Simuel v. United States · State v. McClain · State v. McClain · State v. Faust · State v. Moore
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] party cannot be allowed to impeach a witness on the cross-examination by calling out evidence culpatory of himself and there stop, leaving the opposing party without opportunity to have the witness explain his conduct, and thus place it in an unobjectionable light if he can. In such case the opposing party has the right to such explanation, even though it may affect adversely the party who cross-examined. Upon the examination in chief, the evidence may not be competent, but the cross-examination may make it so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Baymon · State v. Baymon“‘Evidence of other offenses is inadmissible on the issue of guilt if its only relevancy is to show the character of the accused or his disposition to commit an offense of the nature of the one charged; but if it tends to prove any other relevant fact it will not be excluded merely because it also shows him to have been guilty of an independent crime.’ 1 Stansbury, N.C. Evidence § 91 (Brandis rev. 1973); State v. McClain, 282 N.C. 357 , 193 S.E. 2d 108 (1972); State v. Shutt, 279 N.C. 689 , 185 S.E. 2d 206 (1971). See also State v. Jackson, 284 N.C. 321 , 200 S.E. 2d 626 (1973); State v. Felton, 283 N.C. 368 , 196 S.E. 2d 239 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Breeden“Involuntary manslaughter is the unintentional killing of a human being without malice, premeditation or deliberation which results from the performance of an unlawful act not amounting to a felony or not naturally dangerous to human life; or from the performance of a lawful act in a culpably negligent way; or from the culpable omission to perform some legal duty. . . .”
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.