State v. Grigsby’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably State v. Matias (2001), State v. Butler (2002)
2 federal appellate · 56 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. Porter · 40 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Smith · State v. White · State v. Cauley · State v. James
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.
““An intent to kill is a mental attitude, and ordinarily it must be proved, if proven at all, by circumstantial evidence, that is, by proving facts from which the fact sought to be proven may be reasonably inferred.” State v. Cauley, 244 N.C. 701, 708 , 94 S.E.2d 915, 921 (1956), quoted in [State v. Alexander, 337 N.C. 182, 188 , 446 S.E.2d 83, 87 (1994)]. “[T]he nature of the assault, the manner in which it was made, the weapon, if any, used, and the surrounding circumstances are all matters from which an intent to kill may be inferred.” Alexander, 337 N.C. at 188 , 446 S.E.2d at 87 (quoting State v. White, 307 N.C. 42, 49 , 296 S.E.2d 267, 271 (1982)). Moreover, an assailant “must be held to intend the natural consequences of his deliberate act.” State v. Jones, 18 N.C. App. 531, 534 , 197 S.E.2d 268, 270 , cert. denied, 283 N.C. 756 , 198 S.E.2d 726 (1973).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An intent to kill is a mental attitude, and ordinarily it must be proved, if proven at all, by circumstantial evidence, that is, by proving facts from which the fact sought to be proven may be reasonably inferred. [T]he nature of the assault, the manner in which it was made, the weapon, if any, used, and the surrounding circumstances are all matters from which an intent to kill may be inferred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When considering a motion to dismiss, `[i]f the trial court determines that a reasonable inference of the defendant's guilt may be drawn from the evidence, it must deny the defendant's motion and send the case to the jury even though the evidence may also support reasonable inferences of the defendant's innocence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Matias
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.