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← 407 SC 312 - State v. Middleton

State v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Neder v. United States · Beck v. Alabama · Hopper v. Evans · State v. Pittman · Arnold v. State

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.

  1. “Through the passage of the [Omnibus Crime Reduction and Sentencing Reform Act of 2010], the legislature abolished all common law assault and battery offenses and all prior statutory assault and battery offenses.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “When considering whether an error with respect to a jury instruction was harmless, we must 'determine beyond a reasonable doubt that the error complained of did not contribute to the verdict.'”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “The common law offenses of assault and battery with intent to kill, assault with intent to kill, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature, simple assault and battery, assault of a high and aggravated nature, aggravated assault, and simple assault are abolished for offenses occurring on or after the effective date of this act.”
    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.