State v. Crews’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Young (1985), State v. Stokes (1987)
49 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 Bruton v. United States · Rakas v. Illinois · Cass v. United States · State v. Williams · State v. Hardy
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(d) Documents and Tangible Objects. — Upon motion of the defendant, the court must order the prosecutor to permit the defendant to inspect and copy or photograph books, papers, documents, photographs, motion pictures, mechanical or electronic recordings, buildings and places, or any other crime scene, tangible objects, or copies or portions thereof which are within the possession, custody, or control of the State and which are material to the preparation of his defense, are intended for use by the State as evidence at the trial, or were obtained from or belong to the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Statement of Defendant. — Upon motion of a defendant, the court must order the prosecutor: (2) To divulge, in written or recorded form, the substance of any oral statement made by the defendant which the State intends to offer in evidence at the trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘[I]t would be illogical to assume the Act intended to require discovery of remarks of the defendant to bystander witnesses but not disclosure of the witnesses’ names.’ 45 N.C.A.G. 60 (1975) ‘Where possible, the language of a statute will be interpreted so as to avoid an absurd consequence.’ State v. Hart, 287 N.C. 76, 80 , 213 S.E. 2d 291, 295 (1975). Furthermore, it is anomalous to think the Legislature granted a defendant indirect access to the names of the State’s witnesses when it denied his right to this information directly.” State v. Crews, supra at 620, 252 S.E. 2d at 754 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Detter
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.