State v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2023
16 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. Riera · State v. . Lunsford · 4 N.C. App. 407 - State v. Bailey · State v. Surles · State v. Surles
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) defendant's specific intent to commit the crime of common law robbery, and (2) a direct but ineffectual act by defendant leading toward the commission of this crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial judge must charge on a lesser included offense if: (1) the evidence is equivocal on an element of the greater offense . . . and (2) absent this element only a conviction of the lesser included offense would be justified.”
2 later decisions 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.