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← 371 N.C. 719 - State v. Malachi

State v. Malachi’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Neder v. United States · Sullivan v. Louisiana · Rose v. Clark

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

  1. “[I]n the event that the State presents exceedingly strong evidence of defendant's guilt on the basis of a theory that has sufficient support and the State's evidence is neither in dispute nor subject to serious credibility-related questions, it is unlikely that a reasonable jury would elect to convict the defendant on the basis of an unsupported legal theory.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “while not having actual possession, ... has the intent and capability to maintain control and dominion over”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “to charge on matters which materially affect the issues when they are not supported by the evidence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.