72 N.C. App. 471 - State v. Harper’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1985
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Wilkerson · State v. Byrd
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.
“We believe the testimony of the defendant’s niece and his sister that they saw him beating the child with a board, and the testimony of Dr. Irons that in his opinion the child had a battered child syndrome with the bruises to his head and eye being caused by a blunt trauma is sufficient for the jury to find the defendant intentionally inflicted serious injury to the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Campbell
How this case has been treated — in progress
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