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← 71 N.C. App. 720 - State v. McEntire

71 N.C. App. 720 - State v. McEntire’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
June 1991
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · 64 N.C. App. 500 - State v. Yarborough

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

  1. “[T]he better practice would have been to stress more clearly that each juror must decide for himself and not surrender his convictions for the mere purpose of returning a verdict. Indeed, the best practice would have been simply to repeat in toto the instructions [in the Allen charge].”
    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.