59 N.C. App. 425 - State v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
21 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. Evans · State v. McKinney · State v. Perry · Webb v. State · State v. Boone
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in the light most favorable to the State, and the State is entitled to . . . every reasonable inference to be drawn there from. [Citation omitted.] Contradictions and discrepancies are for the jury to resolve. . . . All of the evidence actually admitted, whether competent or incompetent, which is favorable to the State is considered by the Court. ... If there is substantial evidence — whether direct, circumstantial, or both — to support a finding that the offense charged has been committed and that defendant committed it, a case for the jury is made. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The record does not suggest that counsel was denied opportunity to approach the bench to present matters out of the hearing of the jury, or that [he was] denied opportunity to present matters out of the presence of the jury. The court [thus] complied in every respect with the requirements of Rule 21.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Owens“[T]estimony that the outside key had been removed to prevent the daughter from breaking in again, and that the daughter was not welcome when the key was removed ... clearly indicated the victims' lack of consent to their daughter's entry in their absence without an express grant of permission.”
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.