39 N.C. App. 47 - State v. Mills’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably State v. Wall (1982), 110 N.C. App. 155 - State v. Harding (1993)
34 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. Fox · State v. Virgil · State v. Sneeden · State v. Branch · State v. Cornell
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there occurs during the trial an error or legal defect in the proceedings ... resulting in substantial and irreparable prejudice to the defendant's case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]bsent a showing of abuse of that discretion, the decision of the trial court will not be disturbed on appeal.”
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.