54 N.C. App. 660 - State v. Rosser’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2018
16 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. Cameron · State v. . Davis · Rothstein v. Golf Club Co. · State v. . Sigmon · State v. Wiggins
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well established in North Carolina that a jury is not required to be consistent and that incongruity alone will not invalidate a verdict.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The offenses are designated in the statute separately, and while the jury would have been fully justified in finding the defendant guilty on both counts, under the evidence in this case, their failure to do so does not, as a matter of law, vitiate the verdict....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“speculate as to why the jury convicted on one count and not on the other.”
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.