State v. Spinks’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Lowe v. Department of Motor Vehicles · State v. . Godwin · State v. Vehaun · State v. Walker · 34 N.C. App. 485 - State v. Walker
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the jury found that the defendant acted in self-defense they could not have found her guilty of involuntary manslaughter [.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an intentional pointing of a gun violates the statute only if it is done without legal justification,”
1 later decision 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.