State v. Flippen’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Allen (2006), State v. Nicholson (2002)
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 Francis v. Franklin · Curtiss-Wright Corp. v. Schoonejongen · McDougall v. North Carolina · State v. Benson · United States v. Ursery
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 determining whether the evidence is sufficient to support the trial court’s submission of the especially heinous, atrocious, or cruel aggravator, we must consider the evidence ‘in the light most favorable to the State, and the State is entitled to every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom.’ ” State v. Flippen, 349 N.C. 264, 270 , 506 S.E.2d 702, 706 (1998) (quoting [State v. Lloyd, 321 N.C. 301, 319 , 364 S.E.2d 316, 328 , sentence vacated on other grounds, 488 U.S. 807 , 102 L. Ed. 2d 18 (1988)]), cert. denied, [ 526 U.S. 1135 , 143 L. Ed. 2d 1015 ] (1999). “[Contradictions and discrepancies are for the jury to resolve; and all evidence admitted that is favorable to the State is to be considered.” Robinson, 342 N.C. at 86 , 463 S.E.2d at 225 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A murder is [especially] `heinous, atrocious, or cruel' when it is a `conscienceless or pitiless crime which is unnecessarily torturous to the victim.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The victim's age and the existence of a parental relationship between the victim and the defendant may also be considered in determining the existence of the especially heinous, atrocious or cruel circumstance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Anderson
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.