60 N.C. App. 188 - State v. Grainger’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2011
19 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 Roviaro v. United States · State v. Cameron · McLawhorn v. North Carolina · State v. Watson · Wilbur Smith & Assos., Inc. v. South Mountain Properties Inc.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon a motion by defendant that the identity of a confidential informant be revealed, the trial court should first hold a hearing outside the presence of the jury to consider the question. Defendant must present evidence supporting the necessity of having the identity of the confidential informant revealed, following which the State may present evidence in opposition to defendant’s motion. Upon reviewing the evidence and arguments by defendant and the State, the trial court may then either grant or deny defendant’s motion, making the necessary findings of fact and conclusions of law in support of its decision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Nondisclosure of an informant's identity is a privilege justified by the need for effective law enforcement....”
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.