71 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Reilly’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2017
11 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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Odom · State v. Smith · State v. Brown · State v. Witherspoon
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a fundamental error, meaning something so basic, so prejudicial, so lacking in its elements that justice cannot be done or (2) a grave error, which must amount to a denial of a fundamental right of the accused; or (3) the error which has resulted in a miscarriage of justice; (4) an error that denies appellant of a fair trial; or (5) an error that seriously affects the fairness, integrity or public reputation of judicial proceedings; or (6) where it can be fairly said that the instructional mistake had a probable impact on the jury’s finding that the defendant was guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o establish a 'probable impact' in [determining whether it was plain error to fail to give an unrequested instruction on a lesser included offense], [a] defendant would have to show that the jury would have disregarded any [evidence favorable to the State] in favor of [evidence favorable to the defendant].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Boyd“Evidence of the beliefs or opinions of a witness on matters of religion is not admissible for the purpose of showing that by reason of their nature his credibility is impaired or enhanced; provided, however, such evidence may be admitted for the purpose of showing interest or bias.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Kimbrell
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.