65 N.C. App. 234 - State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably State v. Stone (1988), State v. Quick (1991)
42 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 In re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions · State v. Powell · Houchins v. KQED, Inc. · State v. Vestal · State v. Stephens
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts often speak in terms of proof of motive, opportunity, capability and identity, all of which are merely different ways to show that a particular person committed a particular crime. In most cases these factors are not essential elements of the crime, but instead are circumstances which are relevant to identify an accused as the perpetrator of a crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he only substantial evidence linking defendant to the crime consisted of the victim's keys which were found in the defendant's pockets.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.