State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably State v. Nobles (1999), State v. Ali (1991)
80 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 Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Barfield · State v. Rogers · State v. Morgan
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant's intent to kill may be inferred from the nature of the assault, the manner in which it was made, the conduct of the parties, and other relevant circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The term `serious injury' as employed in [ N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-32 (a)] means physical or bodily injury resulting from an assault with a deadly weapon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The essential elements of robbery with a dangerous weapon are (1) the unlawful taking or attempted taking of personal property from a person or in his presence (2) by use or threatened use of any firearms or other dangerous weapon, implement or means (3) whereby the life of a person is endangered or threatened.”
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.