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← 331 N.C. 680 - State v. Johnston

State v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
July 2004
most recently cited

16 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Powell · State v. Earnhardt · State v. Gladden · State v. Olson · State v. Moore

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

  1. “The process of selecting and impaneling the jury is a stage of the trial at which the defendant has a right to be present. Therefore, it was error for the trial court to exclude the defendant, counsel, and the court reporter from its private communications with the prospective jurors at the bench prior to excusing them.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “A perpetrator may premeditate, deliberate, and intend to kill although prompted and to a large extent controlled by passion at the time.”
    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.