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78 N.C. App. 239 - State v. Bright’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

20 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2017

20 state decisions

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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. Odom · State v. Oliver · 73 N.C. App. 645 - State v. Church

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

  1. “A person knows of an activity if he is aware of a high probability of its existence. See Black’s Law Dictionary (5th ed. 1979). A person acts intentionally if he desires to cause the consequences of his act or that [sic] he believes the consequences are substantially certain to result. Id.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “knowledge that [the vehicle] is resorted to by persons for the use, keeping or selling of controlled substances”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “that the violation was committed intentionally,”
    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.