81 N.C. App. 286 - State v. Pait’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably 110 N.C. App. 155 - State v. Harding (1993), 131 N.C. App. 220 - State v. Wilkins (1998)
1 federal appellate · 24 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 Brady v. United States · State v. Boone · State v. Stevens · State v. Lewis · State v. Wheeler
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court's ruling on facts so supported may be disturbed only when there has been a manifest abuse of discretion ... or when it is based on an error of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“are binding if they are supported by any competent evidence[.]”
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.