58 N.C. App. 150 - State v. Baron’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Clinebell v. Commonwealth (1988), State v. Sullivan (1998)
44 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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. Fortney · United States v. Craft · 45 N.C. App. 501 - State v. Smith · State v. . Nelson · State v. Rucker
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a codification of this jurisdiction's rule of relevance as that rule specifically applies to the past sexual behavior of rape victims. The exceptions ... merely define those times when the prior sexual behavior of the complainant is relevant to issues raised in a rape trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sexual behavior of the complainant is irrelevant to any issue in the prosecution unless such behavior: (3) Is evidence of a pattern of sexual behavior so distinctive and so closely resembling the defendant’s version of the alleged encounter with the complainant as to tend to prove that such complainant consented to the act or acts charged or behaved in such a manner as to lead the defendant reasonably to believe that the complainant consented[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Defense counsel sought only to introduce evidence of the prior allegedly false statements for impeachment purposes and advised the court of their intent. We believe that the Legislature intended to exclude the actual sexual history of the complainant, not prior accusations of the complainant.”
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.