6 N.C. App. 245 - State v. MacOn’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2013
16 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 Turner v. Louisiana · State v. Gray · State v. Moore · State v. McKissick · State v. Guffey
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘“The proof of every crime consists of: (1) proof that the crime charged has been committed by someone; and (2) proof that the defendant is the perpetrator of the crime. The first element is the body of the crime, or the corpus delicti; the second is the proof of defendant’s connection with the crime, i.e., his guilty participation or agency therein.’ Wharton’s Criminal Evidence (12th Ed.), Vol. 2, § 393, p. 130. In North Carolina it is required that ‘ . . . the confession be “corroborated” by independent evidence of the corpus delicti. By this is meant, evidence that the offense charged was committed by someone, not necessarily by the defendant himself. The corroborative evidence need not be direct; it may be circumstantial, and it is sufficient (if) the circumstances are such “as will, when taken in connection with the confession, establish the prisoner’s guilt in the minds of the jury beyond a reasonable doubt.” ’ Stansbury, N.C. Evidence 2d, § 182.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rather, a foundation (for the introduction of a confession) may be laid by the introduction of evidence which creates a reasonable inference that the death could have been caused by a criminal agency... even in the presence of an equally plausible non-criminal explanation of the event (citing cases).”
2 later decisions 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.