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← 345 N.C. 319 - State v. Conner

State v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis

1997

Citation profile

60
cited by 60 later decisions
2
states following
May 2019
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 50 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably State v. Cummings (2000), State v. Davis (1998)

3 federal appellate · 50 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Payne v. Tennessee · Holm v. United States · State v. Benson · State v. Young

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.

  1. “[a] trial court must give a requested instruction that is a correct statement of the law and is supported by the evidence[,] [t]he trial court need not give the requested instruction verbatim [for] an instruction that gives the substance of the requested instructions is sufficient.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “A trial court must give a requested instruction that is a correct statement of the law and is supported by the evidence. The trial court need not give the requested instruction verbatim, however; an instruction that gives the substance of the requested instructions is sufficient.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “a correct statement of the law and . . . supported by the 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.