State v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2014
22 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. Brown · State v. Thompson · State v. Melton · 58 N.C. App. 330 - State v. Davis · State v. Graham
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proof of premeditation and deliberation generally consists of circumstantial rather than direct evidence. Threats against the victim by the defendant, previous ill will between the victim and the defendant, the nature and number of the victim’s wounds, and the brutality of the . . . [offense] are some of the circumstances supporting an inference of premeditation and deliberation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Q. Has the defendant, Barry Carter, a prior record of convictions? A. Yes. Q. What has he previously been convicted of? A. Delivering a malt beverage to a minor. Q. In what year was that conviction? A. I'm not sure right off-hand. I believe it was 1980 or 1981. Q. Was that in Rowan County? A. Yes, sir.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Strickland
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.