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← 370 N.C. 488 - State v. Chekanow

State v. Chekanow’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
2
states following
October 2022
most recently cited

25 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV Corp. · Nollan v. California Coastal Commission · New Jersey v. New York · Negron v. United States · Delta Airlines, Inc. v. National Union Fire Insurance

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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “evidence is for the jury to weigh, not the trial court, and it is certainly not for the appellate courts to reweigh ... [because] [w]hen a trial court rules on a motion to dismiss, the court gives considerable deference to the State's evidence.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “consider all evidence admitted, whether competent or incompetent, in the light most favorable to the State, giving the State the benefit of every reasonable inference and resolving any contradictions in its favor.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “In ruling on a motion to dismiss, the trial court need determine only whether there is substantial evidence of each essential element of the crime and that the defendant is the perpetrator.”
    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.