State v. Truesdale’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Dogwood Development & Management Co. LLC v. White Oak Transport Co. (2008), State v. Parker (2001)
60 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 Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Independent Federation of Flight Attendants · State v. Stager · McDonald v. Missouri · State v. Bonney · State v. Cummings
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In ruling on a motion to dismiss a first-degree murder charge, the trial court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to the State and give the State every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom. State v. Jackson, 317 N.C. 1, 22 , 343 S.E.2d 814, 827 (1986), judgment vacated on other grounds, 479 U.S. 1077 , 94 L. Ed. 2d 133 (1987). Substantial evidence must be introduced tending to prove the essential elements of the crime charged and that defendant was the perpetrator. Id. The evidence may contain contradictions or discrepancies; these are for the jury to resolve and do not require dismissal. Id. at 22-23, 343 S.E.2d at 827 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elliott · State v. Bruton““ ‘Premeditation means that [the] defendant formed the specific intent to kill the victim for some length of time, however short, before the actual killing.’ ” “ ‘Deliberation’ means that the defendant formed the intent to kill in a cool state of blood and not as a result of a violent passion due to sufficient provocation.’ ” “Specific intent to kill is an essential element of first degree murder, but it is also a necessary constituent of the elements of premeditation and deliberation.” “Thus, proof of premeditation and deliberation is also proof of intent to kill.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the defendant formed the specific intent to kill the victim some period of time, however short, before the actual killing.”
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.