45 N.C. App. 574 - State v. Mapp’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably State v. Ahearn (1983), White v. State (1990)
2 federal appellate · 36 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. Wilkerson · State v. Cutler · State v. McClain · State v. McClain · State v. Duboise
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When the motion [to dismiss] calls into question the sufficiency of circumstantial evidence, the question for the court is whether a reasonable inference of defendant’s guilt may be drawn from the circumstances. If so, it is for the jury to decide whether the facts, taken singly or in combination, satisfy them beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Malice] comprehends not only particular animosity ‘but also wickedness of disposition, hardness of heart, cruelty, recklessness of consequences, and a mind regardless of social duty and deliberately bent on mischief, though there may be no intention to injure a particular person. . . .’ ‘[It] does not necessarily mean an actual intent to take human life; it may be inferential or implied, instead of positive, as when an act which imports danger to another is done so recklessly or wantonly as to manifest depravity of mind and disregard of human life.’ In such a situation ‘the law regards the circumstances of the act as so harmful that the law punishes the act as though malice did in fact exist.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Now with respect to the charges, or the charge against the defendant, that charge being second degree murder, I instruct you that in order for you to find the defendant guilty of second degree murder the state must prove three things beyond a reasonable doubt: First, that the defendant intentionally and with malice shot John Allen Hall with a deadly weapon on or about December 27, 1981. Intent is a mental attitude which is seldom provable by direct evidence. It must ordinarily be proved by circumstances from which it may be inferred. You arrive at the intent of a person by such just and reasonable deductions from the circumstances proven as a reasonably prudent person would ordinarily draw therefrom. Malice means not only hatred, ill will, or spite as it is ordinarily understood, but of course that is malice, but it also means that condition of the mind which prompts a person to take the life of another person intentionally, or to intentionally inflict serious bodily harm which proximately results in the death of that person without just cause, excuse, or justification. Now a .38 calibre pistol, or a .38 calibre of the type described as State’s Exhibit No. 1, is a deadly weapon, for a deadly weapon is a weapon which is likely to cause death or serious injury. Then the state must prove that the shooting of the defendant by the said — excuse me, that the shooting of the said John Allen Hall by the defendant was the cause of the death of John Allen Hall. Now I would instruct you”
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.