57 N.C. App. 561 - State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2019
24 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. Knight · 35 N.C. App. 574 - State v. Keeter · 51 N.C. App. 108 - State v. Cornell · 34 N.C. App. 434 - State v. Baker · State v. . Raper
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e believe the proper test as to whether an object has been put in evidence is whether a party has offered it as substantive evidence or so that the jury may examine it and determine whether it illustrates, corroborates, or impeaches the testimony of the witness.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“if no evidence is introduced by the defendant, the right to open and close the argument to the jury shall belong to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Skipper
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.