31 N.C. App. 148 - Hussey v. Cheek’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2009
6 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 Tidwell v. Booker · State v. Fletcher · Roberson v. . Stokes · 27 N.C. App. 435 - Tidwell v. Booker
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In [a] criminal action the burden [is] on the State to prove the absence of self-defense beyond a reasonable doubt. In [a] civil action the burden [is] on the defendant to prove self-defense by the greater weight of the evidence. In no way can the State’s fail ure to carry its burden in the criminal case be dispositive of the defendant’s burden in the civil case.”
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.