64 N.C. App. 177 - State v. Sidbury’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2018
22 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 39 N.C. App. 359 - State v. Guffey · 38 N.C. App. 603 - State v. Whitted
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“must be careful in what they say and do because a jury looks to the court for guidance and picks up the slightest intimation of an opinion. It does not matter whether the opinion of the trial judge is conveyed to the jury directly or indirectly as every defendant in a criminal case is entitled to a trial before an impartial judge and an unbiased jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“By its impromptu question to the witness, the court brought it to the jury's attention that defendant was able to deal cards with gloves on. The seed was thus implanted in the jurors' minds to question defendant's inability to handle a gun as opposed to his ability to deal cards with his glove on. The court indirectly reminded them of this seeming inconsistency by its statement at the end of the day.”
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.