43 N.C. App. 541 - State v. Coffey’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2009
22 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 66 Cal. 2d 749 - People v. Wilson · State v. Mercer · State v. Eason · State v. . Hairston · State v. Weston
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[IJntent is an essential element of the crime of assault, including an assault with an automobile, but intent may be implied from culpable or criminal negligence, if the injury or apprehension thereof is the direct result of intentional acts done under circumstances showing a reckless disregard for the safety of others and a willingness to inflict injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“intent is an essential element of the crime of assault . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e smoked six or seven joints and that’s all I know. I don’t know what happen [sic] after that. I felt drunk. I was out of it; drunk enough to be out of it. The next thing I remember is waking up on the Roby Greene road the next, I guess it was the next day .... I do not remember anything else between the time I was down at the river and the next morning.”
1 later decision 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.