30 N.C. App. 224 - State v. Chester’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 141 N.C. App. 302 - State v. Funchess (2000), People v. Lesh (1983)
27 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 State v. Welch · State v. Elliott · 9 N.C. App. 477 - State v. Teasley · 19 N.C. App. 35 - State v. Stacy · State v. Ward
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he burden is on the State to prove that defendant had knowledge at the time charged that his operator's license was suspended or revoked; the State satisfie[s] this burden when, nothing else appearing, it has offered evidence of compliance with the notice requirements of G.S. 20-48[.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. “We conclude that in a prosecution for violation of G.S. 20-28 (a) and the evidence for the State discloses that the Department complied with the notice requirements of G.S. 20-48: (1) where there is no evidence that defendant did not receive the notice mailed by the Department, it is not necessary for the trial court to charge on guilty knowledge; (2) where there is some evidence of failure of defendant to receive the notice or some other evidence sufficient to raise the issue, then the trial court must, in order to comply with G.S. 1-180 and apply the law to the evidence, instruct the jury that guilty knowledge by the defendant is necessary to convict; and (3) where all the evidence indicates that defendant had no knowledge of the suspension or revocation of license, a nonsuit should be granted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since in the case before us the defendant offered evidence that he did not receive notice and had no knowledge that his license had been suspended and the court did not charge the jury that it could find the defendant guilty only if he knew of the license suspension, we find error, and there must be a [new trial.]”
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.