52 N.C. App. 380 - State v. Sellars’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably 37 Cal. 3d 351 - People v. McDonald (1984), 36 Cal. 3d 236 - People v. Bledsoe (1984)
29 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 Simmons v. United States · In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · Keeble v. United States · Beal v. Franklin · State v. Vestal
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another, any other person 16 years of age or over without the consent of such person . . . shall be guilty of kidnapping if such confinement, restraint or removal is for the purpose of: (2) Facilitating the commission of any felony or facilitating flight of any person following the commission of a felony; or (3) Doing serious bodily harm to or terrorizing the person so confined, restraining [sic] or removed. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““was to lay a basis for defendant’s argument that it was possible that the prosecuting witness made a mistake in her identification of defendant. We do not believe the state is required to pay for expert witnesses whose testimony amounts to generalities and to speculation as to whether those generalities apply to a specific case.” Id., 278 S.E.2d at 915 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. State“to determine whether the accused should be discharged or whether sufficient probable cause exists to bind the case over to superior court and to seek an indictment against the defendant.”
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.