67 N.C. App. 65 - State v. O'NEAL’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2021
13 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · State v. Norris · State v. Crocker · State v. Beal
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]pon motion of a defendant or with his concurrence the judge may declare a mistrial at any time during the trial. " Thus, based on the plain language of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1061, the trial court may "exercise its mistrial authority in a criminal matter only `during the trial[.]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o retroactively declare a mistrial, after the jury had returned a verdict . . . goes far beyond any concurrence which may be implied from the motion [itself],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Once the court has discharged the jury, there is no purpose in ordering a mistrial[.]”
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.