65 N.C. App. 31 - State v. Salters’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 130 N.C. App. 154 - State v. Hayes (1998), 72 N.C. App. 94 - State v. Upright (1984)
23 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Southern Railway Co. v. Seaboard Allied Milling Corp. · State v. Ahearn · State v. Irwin · State v. Jones
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While a mental or physical condition, such as [drug abuse], may be capable of reducing a defendant's culpability for an offense, ... evidence that the condition exists, without more, does not mandate consideration as a mitigating factor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The defendant was suffering from a mental or physical condition that was insufficient to constitute a defense but significantly reduced his culpability for the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bush
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.