34 N.C. App. 606 - State v. Black’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2015
14 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. White · State v. . Love · 20 N.C. App. 464 - State v. Ingram · State v. . Boynton
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““You may find from the evidence that State’s witness (name witness), is interested in the outcome of this case because of his activities as an (informer) (undercover agent). If so, you should examine his testimony with care and caution in light of that interest. If, after doing so, you believe his testimony in whole or in part, you should treat what you believe the same as any other believable evidence.””
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.