State v. McCarroll’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 120 N.C. App. 720 - Roberts v. Young (1995), 133 N.C. App. 573 - State v. Anthony (1999)
37 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 United States v. McCaskill · State v. Morgan · State v. Gibbs · State v. Fortney · 58 N.C. App. 150 - State v. Baron
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plain error is fundamental error, something so basic, so prejudicial, so lacking in its elements that justice cannot have been done.....We cannot hold that the reference to the prosecuting witness as the victim was an error so basic and lacking in its elements that justice could not have been done. This assignment of error is overruled.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“judge properly place[s] the burden of proof on the State[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a false accusation is not sexual activity”
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.