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← 333 N.C. 744 - State v. Cunningham

State v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
November 2010
most recently cited

34 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably State v. Green (1994), State v. Abraham (1994)

34 state decisions

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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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Keeble v. United States · State v. Kennedy · State v. Quick · State v. Watson

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

  1. “A challenge for cause to an individual juror may be made by any party on the ground that the juror: (9) For any other cause is unable to render a fair and impartial verdict.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “in a case . . . in which a juror's answers show that he could not follow the law as given . . . by the judge in his instructions to the jury, it is error not to excuse such a juror”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “if [the defendant] doesn't want to prove his innocence, I would have to accept that.”
    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.