State v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Kennedy (1987), 194 N.C. App. 1 - Strickland v. Hedrick (2008)
92 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 Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Rakas v. Illinois · State v. Bullard · State v. Vestal · State v. Covington
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A correct decision of a lower court will not be disturbed on review simply because an insufficient or superfluous reason is assigned. The question for review is whether the ruling of the trial court was correct and not whether the reason given therefor is sound or tenable.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“The nature and number of the victim's wounds is another indicator of premeditation and deliberation. 'The premise of [this] theory of premeditation and deliberation is that when numerous wounds are inflicted, the defendant has the opportunity to premeditate and deliberate from one blow to the next.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`is capable of being fired rapidly, some amount of time, however brief, for thought and deliberation must elapse between each pull of the trigger.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Locklear
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.