State v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 161 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 171 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Rose (1994), State v. Green (1994)
3 federal appellate · 161 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 Gregg v. Georgia · Griffin v. California · Doyle v. Ohio · Estelle v. McGuire · Lockett v. Ohio
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 171 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We presume ‘that jurors . . . attend closely the particular language of the trial court’s instructions in a criminal case and strive to understand, make sense of, and follow the instructions given them.’ ” State v. Jennings, 333 N.C. 579, 618 , 430 S.E.2d 188, 208 (quoting Francis v. Franklin, 471 U.S. 307 , 324 n.9, 85 L. Ed. 2d 344 , 360 n.9 (1985)) (alteration in original), cert. denied, - U.S. — , 126 L. Ed. 2d 602 (1993)).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (a) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (b) helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he term “torture” is not a legal term of art which carries a specific meaning not readily apparent to the witness. “Torture” does not denote a criminal offense in North Carolina and therefore does not carry a precise legal definition, as “murder” and “rape” do, involving elements of intent as well as acts.”
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.