56 N.C. App. 101 - State v. McLellan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2008
9 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 Hugh J. Addonizio v. United States · United States v. Addonizio · Miller v. Oregon · State v. Gaines · State ex rel. R. R.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Defendant highlights an isolated portion of the court’s jury instructions. The charge, however, must be construed contextually. State v. Gaines, 283 N.C. 33, 43 , 194 S.E.2d 839, 846 (1973). . . . We will not hold one portion prejudicial when the charge as a whole is correct. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The decision of whether an interpreter is warranted in a particular case is a decision within the trial judge's discretion. It will not be reviewed absent a showing of abuse of discretion.”
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.