74 N.C. App. 159 - State v. Durham’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably Clinebell v. Commonwealth (1988), State v. Sullivan (1998)
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 Davis v. Alaska · Chambers v. Mississippi · Pointer v. Texas · Washington v. Texas · Brookhart v. Janis
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.
“In these circumstances, we believe the child’s accusation of the father was relevant to the child’s credibility, and we believe the trial judge abused his discretion and violated defendant’s constitutional rights by ruling such a subject irrelevant and by completely foreclosing any discussion of it ... .”
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.