8 N.C. App. 561 - State v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 1982
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re the Will of Gatling · Newton v. . Newton
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all trials in this State, when it may otherwise be competent and relevant to compare handwritings, a comparison of a disputed writing with any writing proved to the satisfaction of the judge to be genuine, shall be permitted to be made by witnesses, and such writings and the evidence of witnesses respecting the same may be submitted to the court and jury as evidence of the genuineness or otherwise of the writing in dispute ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. LeDuc
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