70 N.C. App. 674 - State v. Rutherford’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably State v. Willis (1992), State v. Williams (1992)
26 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Murphy v. Florida · Marshall v. United States · State v. Hardy · Smith v. AMERICAN RADIATOR & STANDARD SANITARY CORPORATION
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The circumstances must be such as not merely to put suspicion on the verdict, because there was opportunity and a chance for misconduct, but that there was in fact misconduct. When there is merely matter of suspicion, it is purely a matter in the discretion of the presiding judge.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“`trial judge is in a better position to investigate any allegations of misconduct, question witnesses and observe their demeanor and make appropriate findings.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington“Misconduct must be determined by the facts and circumstances of each case....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Washington
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.