State v. Shane’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Brown (1987), State v. Pinch (1982)
2 federal appellate · 95 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. Barfield · State v. Williams · State v. McClain · State v. McClain · Burks v. Texas
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]ubstantive evidence of a defendant's past, and distinctly separate, criminal activities or misoncduct is generally excluded when its only logical relevancy is to suggest defendant's propensity or predisposition to commit the type of offense with which he is presently charged. [Citations omitted.] `Logical relevancy' is capably demonstrated whenever such evidence has some bearing upon genuine questions concerning knowledge, identity, intent, motive, plan or design, connected crimes, or consensual illicit sexual acts between the same parties. [Citations omitted.] * * * * * * In addition, it must affirmatively appear that the probative force of such evidence outweighs the specter of undue prejudice to the defendant, and, in close cases, fundamental fairness requires giving defendant the benefit of the doubt and excluding the evidence. [Or, as it is more descriptively said in the game of baseball, the tie must go to the runner.] [Citations omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“severely attenuated [and] `substantially negate[s] the plausibility of the existence of an ongoing and continuous plan to engage persistently in such deviant activities.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A legitimate inference of foul play does not invariably arise from the mere act of resigning from employment. Moreover, the term ‘improprieties’ is overly broad because an improper act does not necessarily connote a breach of moral or legal mores, and the plural form of the word suggests the commission of several acts without particularizing a single, specific event for the jury to consider in evaluating credibility. See State v. Purcell, supra; State v. Mason, supra. Defendant Shane was never asked outright whether he had engaged in an earlier sexual misdeed with a prostitute. Instead, Shane was interrogated about his prior conversations with another police officer about the incident and his knowledge of the content of the prostitute’s allegations. Thus, we conclude that the prosecutor’s cross-examination of Shane was not competently tailored to elicit his affirmance or denial of ‘some identifiable specific act’ by means of a detailed reference to ‘the time or the place or the victim or any of the circumstances of defendant’s alleged prior misconduct.’ State v. Purcell, supra, 296 N.C. at 732-33 , 252 S.E. 2d at 775 ; see State v. Herbin, 298 N.C. 441, 451 , 259 S.E. 2d 263, 270 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sparks
How this case has been treated — in progress
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