55 N.C. App. 478 - State v. Rankin’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2013
12 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. Palmer · State v. Lowe
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] bill of indictment is legally sufficient if it charges the substance of the offense and puts the defendant on notice that he will be called upon to defend against proof of the manner and means by which the crime was perpetrated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unlawfully, willfully and feloniously did steal, take, and carry away and attempt to steal, take and carry away another’s personal property, A 2005 TOYOTA HIGHLANDER AUTOMOBILE (YIN: JTEDP21A25004797.1) APPROXIMATE VALUE OF $18.000.00: AND AN LP 1 FLIP PHONE. HAVING AN APPROXIMATE VALUE OF $100.00: AND A BANK OF AMERICA ATM CARD. HAVING AN APPROXIMATE VALUE OF $1.00: AND APPROXIMATELY $700.00 IN U.S. CURRENCY of the value of $18,801.00 dollars, from the presence, person, place of business, and residence of_ _. The defendant committed this act having in possession and with the use and threatened use of firearms and other dangerous weapons, implements, and means, A SAWED OFF HAR RINGTON & RICHARDSON TOPPER MODEL 158. 12 GAUGE SHOTGUN (SERIAL # L246386) AND AN EXCAM GT-27 .25 CALIBER SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL (SERIAL # Ml 1062) whereby the life of EVE MARIE CARSON was endangered and threatened.”
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.