42 N.C. App. 148 - State v. Zigler’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2001
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chambers v. Maroney · Texas v. White · State v. Vestal · State v. Bryant · State v. Williams
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that a person is guilty of the felony created by G.S. 14-34.1 if he intentionally, without legal justification or excuse, discharges a firearm into an occupied building with knowledge that the building is then occupied by one or more persons or when he has reasonable grounds to believe that the building might be occupied by one or more persons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. James
How this case has been treated — in progress
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