70 N.C. App. 40 - State v. Grier’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 1995
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Neil v. Biggers · State v. Harvey · State v. Jones · North Carolina National Bank v. Burnette · State v. Redfern
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 14 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.”
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.