4 N.C. App. 303 - State v. Ledbetter’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2018
16 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. Stephens · State v. Porth · State v. Crocker · State v. Ray · State v. Battle
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he initial verdict is unambiguous when interpreted with reference to the warrant, the evidence and the charge. When the jury returned and again stated that they had found her guilty of ‘involuntary manslaughter’, this was nothing more than a simple change in form. The change, which was in fact unnecessary, did not prejudice the defendant in any way. It was simply a different way of saying the same thing. The substance and meaning of the verdict remained unaltered. The second purported taking of the verdict was mere surplusage and the defendant was in no way prejudiced.” 167 S.E.2d at 76 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Roberts““There could have been no confusion in the jurors’ minds as to what crime was submitted to them for consideration.” 167 S.E.2d at 75 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Roberts
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.