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← 76 N.C. App. 642 - State v. Green

76 N.C. App. 642 - State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Lehnhausen v. Lake Shore Auto Parts Co. · State v. Rowland · State v. Porter · State v. . McLeod · 54 N.C. App. 293 - State v. Hawley

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

  1. “the action of bloodhounds may be received in evidence when it is properly shown: (1) that they are of pure blood, and of a stock characterized by acuteness of scent and power of discrimination; (2) that they possess these qualities, and have been accustomed and trained to pursue the human track; (3) that they have been found by experience [to be] reliable in such pursuit; (4) and that in the particular case they were put on the trail of the guilty party, which was pursued and followed under such circumstances and in such way as to afford substantial assurance, or permit a reasonable inference, of identification.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “then traced the scent along the same path ... to where the defendant and the codefendant were apprehended.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “the conduct of the hound and other attendant circumstances, rather than the dog's family tree”
    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.