77 N.C. App. 565 - State v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2010
12 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 State v. Shuler · 47 N.C. App. 376 - State v. Cooley · 67 N.C. App. 377 - State v. Jones · State v. Cooley · Hawthorne v. Realty Syndicate, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An order of a mistrial on a motion of the court is 'addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and his ruling on the motion will not be disturbed on appeal absent a gross abuse of that discretion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Upon . . . his own motion, a judge may declare a mistrial if: (1)[i]t is impossible for the trial to proceed in conformity with law . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This statute allows a judge . . . to grant a mistrial where he could reasonably conclude that the trial will not be fair and impartial.”
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.