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← 71 N.C. App. 227 - State v. Deans

71 N.C. App. 227 - State v. Deans’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 1993
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Hankerson v. North Carolina · Smith v. North Carolina · State v. Wilkerson · State v. Hankerson · State v. Pinch

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the unlawful killing of a human being with malice, but without premeditation and deliberation.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “an individual intentionally takes the life of another with a deadly weapon.”
    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.