54 N.C. App. 473 - State v. Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2018
8 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. Goines · State v. Bell · State v. Biggs · State v. Blizzard · State v. Prevette
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had been operated recently or that it was in motion at the time the officer observed the defendant ... [n]or did the State offer evidence that the motor was running with the defendant sitting under the steering wheel at the time the officer came upon the scene ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eldred“When the facts and circumstances warranted by the evidence do no more than raise a suspicion of guilt, they are insufficient to make out a case and a motion to dismiss should be allowed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eldred“[the] circumstantial evidence alone is insufficient to support a conclusion that the defendant was the driver.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Eldred
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.