47 N.C. App. 121 - State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2013
20 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 Fowler v. North Carolina · State v. Britt · State v. Slade · State v. Hunter · State v. Miller
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Requests for special instructions must be in writing and must be submitted before the beginning of the charge by the court. The purpose of an instruction is to clarify the issues for the jury and to apply the law to the facts of the case. The law requires the trial judge to clarify and explain the law arising on the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[D]efendant's actions are excused and he is not guilty if he acted in self-defense.”
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.