74 N.C. App. 96 - State v. Highsmith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14
cited by 14 later decisions
2
states following
October 1997
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Jones · State v. Brower · State v. Baldwin · State v. Thomas · Johnson v. Heath
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“returning to the vicinity of the original fight manifest[s] actions more consistent with a prior determination to seek out a confrontation rather than a state of passion without time to cool placing defendant beyond control of his reason.”
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.