State v. Gibbons’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Lawrence (2012), State v. Williams (1983)
56 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. Harvey · State v. Atkinson · State v. Joyner · Funicello v. New Jersey · State v. Evans
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence that the defendant endangered or threatened the life of the victim by possession of [the] weapon, aside from the mere fact of the weapon's presence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The fact that a photograph depicts a horrible, gruesome and revolting scene, indicating a vicious, calculated act of cruelty, malice or lust, does not render the photograph incompetent in evidence, when properly authenticated as a correct portrayal of conditions observed by and related by the witness who uses the photograph to illustrate his testimony. State v. Porth, 269 N.C. 329 , 153 S.E. 2d 10 ; State v. Rogers, 233 N.C. 390 , 64 S.E. 2d 572 , 28 A.L.R. 2d 1104 ; State v. Gardner, 228 N.C. 567 , 46 S.E. 2d 824 ; Stansbury, North Carolina Evidence, 2d Ed., § 34. For a collection of authorities to the same effect from other jurisdictions, see Annot., 73 A.L.R. 2d 769 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Dobbins“requires both an act of possession and an act with the weapon which endangers or threatens the life of the victim[.]”
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.