State v. Efird’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably State v. Rogers (1986), 123 N.C. App. 361 - State v. Sisk (1996)
26 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. Taylor · State v. Monk · Sims ex rel. Sims v. Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance · Sims v. Charlotte Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. · State v. Pearce
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, the trial judge must carefully scrutinize his questioning to insure that it does not impermissively suggest an opinion as to the guilt or innocence of a criminal defendant, the credibility of a witness, or any other matter which must be determined by a jury. State v. Efird, 309 N.C. 802, 808-09 , 309 S.E.2d 228, 232 (1983) (quoting State v. Monk, 291 N.C. 37, 50 , 229 S.E.2d 163, 171 (1976)) (citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial judge has a duty to question a witness in order to clarify the testimony being given [citations omitted] or `to elicit overlooked, pertinent facts'”
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.