77 N.C. App. 68 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2011
10 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. Bullard · State v. Covington · State v. Corbett · State v. Joyner · State v. Moore
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When asked by the State where she saw the defendant go upon his arrival at the motel, she answered, “I would say what looks like room fifty-one.” . . . The witness, as a resident of Room 41, had earlier testified she knew where Room 51 was in reference to her own room.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“while reflecting either poor memory or indistinct perception, are nonetheless competent and admissible because they were rationally based on the firsthand observation of the witness, rather than mere speculation or conjecture.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]aw him sh____ shut the door or whatever.”
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.