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← 314 N.C. 649 - State v. Greene

State v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
December 2013
most recently cited

1 district · 20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 2013

1 district · 20 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. Hill · State v. Foust · State v. Weaver · State v. Redfern · State v. Wrenn

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

  1. “If the State proves beyond a reasonable doubt that the killing was caused either by an unlawful act not amounting to a felony or by culpably negligent conduct, it has proven that the killing was unlawful.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “The single essential element common to all four degrees of homicide is that there be an unlawful killing of a human being.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “but are two methods of proving the essential element that the killing was unlawful.”
    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.