State v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Mumford (2010), State v. Price (1984)
47 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. Odom · State v. Johnson · State v. Elam · State v. Fennell
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]ailure to object to an erroneous instruction or to the erroneous failure to give an instruction does not constitute a waiver of the right to appeal on that error in accordance with G.S. 15A-1446(d)(13).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“exclusive authority to make rules of procedure and practice for the Appellate Division.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At the close of the evidence ... in every jury trial, civil and criminal, . . . the trial judge shall conduct a conference on instructions with the attorneys of record. . . . Such conference shall ... be held for the purpose of discussing the proposed instructions to be given to the jury. An opportunity must be given to the attorneys ... to request any additional instructions or to object to any of those instructions proposed by the judge. Such requests, objections and the rulings of the court thereon shall be placed in the record. If special instruc tions are desired, they should be submitted in writing to the trial judge at or before the jury instruction conference.”
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.