State v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 1984
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Finch · State v. Best · 59 N.C. App. 425 - State v. Thompson · 56 N.C. App. 734 - State v. Bryant
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In instructing the jury, the judge must declare and explain the law arising on the evidence. He is not required to state the evidence except to the extent necessary to explain the application of the law to the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Norfleet
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.