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← 318 N.C. 669 - State v. Wortham

State v. Wortham’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

76
cited by 76 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 70 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Herring (1988), State v. Thomas (1989)

4 federal appellate · 70 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. Ahearn · State v. Weaver · State v. Parker · State v. Freeman · State v. Jeffries

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

  1. “[W]e think the better procedure is to remand for resentencing when one or more but not all of the convictions consolidated for judgment has been vacated.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “which puts Wortham on point with the case at bar. Therefore, the trial court did not err in failing to instruct the jury on simple assault, because it is not a lesser included offense of attempted first degree sexual offense. II. Prior Consistent Statement Defendant Foreman next contends, on the grounds that it was hearsay evidence, that the trial court committed prejudicial errorin admitting the testimony of Officer Latta relating the victim's statement to him. Earlier in the trial, the victim testified that defendant Foreman”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[A]ll of the essential elements of the lesser crime must also be essential elements included in the greater crime. If the lesser crime has an essential element which is not completely covered by the greater crime, it is not a lesser included offense. The determination is made on a definitional, not a factual basis.”
    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.