41 N.C. App. 465 - State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1992
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mullaney v. Wilbur · Hankerson v. North Carolina · State v. Hankerson · State v. Potter · State v. Deck
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.
“In order for the killing of another to be excused on the basis of defense of a family member, the defendant must have had a reasonable belief that the killing was necessary to prevent the death or serious injury of the family member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McAvoy
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.