80 N.C. App. 302 - State v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2017
20 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. Sweezy · State v. Jones · State v. Church · State v. Perry · State v. . McBryde
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.
“[w]here the only evidence of the defendant's intent to commit a felony in the building was the fact that the defendant broke and entered a building or dwelling containing personal property....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“to commit larceny, but did not take anything, calls for a jury instruction of misdemeanor breaking or entering. Here, the evidence does not support instructing the jury on the lesser-included offense of misdemeanor breaking or entering. This is not a case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ervin
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.