61 N.C. App. 615 - State v. Hammonds’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 1995
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Ahearn · State v. Johnson · State v. Barbour
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evidence showed that defendant approached the victim without provocation and shot him in the face. The use of a deadly weapon and the seriousness of the injury involved here may be evidence of an especially heinous, atrocious and cruel crime. However, the same evidence proved the deadly weapon and serious injury elements of the crime.”
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.