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← 309 N.C. 78 - State v. Myers

State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

42
cited by 42 later decisions
1
states following
July 2015
most recently cited

40 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Gaines (1997), State v. Wallace (2000)

40 state decisions

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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. Smith · State v. Powell · State v. Irick · State v. Brown · State v. Faust

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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Among the circumstances which may be considered as tending to show premeditation and deliberation are: (1) the want of provocation on the part of the victim, (2) the defendant’s conduct and statements before and after the killing, (3) threats made against the victim by the defendant, (4) ill will or previous difficulty between the parties, (5) evidence that the killing was done in a brutal manner.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Zuniga · State v. Gaines
  2. “false, contradictory or conflicting statements made by an accused may be considered as a circumstance tending to reflect the mental processes of a person possessed of a guilty conscience seeking to divert suspicion and to exculpate [himself].”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 141 N.C. App. 378 - State v. Barnett · 203 N.C. App. 373 - State v. Capps
  3. “The probative force of such evidence is that it tends to show consciousness of guilt.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 203 N.C. App. 373 - State v. Capps

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.