65 N.C. App. 107 - State v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 183 N.C. App. 514 - State v. Bagley (2007), State v. Alexander (1994)
41 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 State v. Powell · State v. Wilkerson · State v. Marshall Norman Hicks · State v. Alston · State v. Weaver
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary distinction between felonious assault under G.S. § 14-32 and misdemeanor assault under G.S. § 14-33 is that a conviction of felonious assault requires a showing that a deadly weapon was used and serious injury resulted, while if the evidence shows that only one of the two elements was present, i.e., that either a deadly weapon was used or serious injury resulted, the offense is punishable only as a misdemeanor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court may remove the element of serious injury from consideration by the jury by peremptorily declaring the injury to be serious. However, such a declaration is appropriate only when the evidence is not conflicting and is such that reasonable minds could not differ as to the serious nature of the injuries inflicted.”
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.