State v. Hamlette’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably State v. Ahearn (1983), State v. Jackson (1983)
3 federal appellate · 77 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Lehman Bros. v. Lilly · State v. Johnson · State v. Barfield
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“G.S. 15A-2000(e)(3) states that one of the aggravating factors which may justify the imposition of the death penalty is the fact that the “defendant had been previously convicted of a felony involving the use or threat of violence to the person.” This section requires that there be evidence that (1) defendant had been convicted of a felony, that (2) the felony for which he was convicted involved the “use or threat of violence to the person,” and that (3) the conduct upon which this conviction was based was conduct which occurred prior to the events out of which the capital felony charge arose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holden · State v. Warren“A defendant may introduce evidence tending to show that someone other than defendant committed the crime charged, but such evidence is inadmissible unless it points directly to the guilt of the third party. Evidence which does no more than create an inference or conjecture as to another's guilt is inadmissible. State v. Stanfield, 292 N.C. 357 , 233 S.E.2d 574 (1977); State v. Jenkins, 292 N.C. 179 , 232 S.E.2d 648 (1977); State v. Shinn, 238 N.C. 535 , 78 S.E.2d 388 (1953); State v. Smith, 211 N.C. 93 , 189 S.E. 175 (1937). `[T]he admissibility of another person's guilt now seems to be governed, as it should be, by the general principle of relevancy under which the evidence will be admitted unless in the particular case it appears to have no substantial probative value.' 1 Stansbury's N.C. Evidence § 93 at 302-03 (Brandis rev.1973).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eason · State v. McElrath“The dying declarations of a deceased person regarding the cause or circumstances of his death shall be admissible in evidence in all civil and criminal trials and other proceedings before courts, administrative agencies and other tribunals to the same extent and for the same purposes that they might have been admissible had the deceased survived and been sworn as a witness in the proceedings, subject to proof that: (1) At the time of the making of such declaration the deceased was conscious of approaching death and believed there was no hope of recovery; (2) Such declaration was voluntarily made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Richardson
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.