State v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 159 N.C. App. 312 - State v. Poag (2003), 98 N.C. App. 167 - State v. Summerlin (1990)
88 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. Boone · State v. Benfield
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here it can reasonably be inferred from the language of the trial judge that the sentence was imposed at least in part because defendant did not agree to a plea offer by the state and insisted on a trial by jury, defendant’s constitutional right to trial by jury has been abridged, and a new sentencing hearing must result.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] criminal defendant may not be punished at sentencing for exercising th[e] constitutional right to trial by jury.”
2 later decisions 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.