81 N.C. App. 91 - State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 131 N.C. App. 514 - State v. Alston (1998), State v. Morgan (1991)
72 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. Earnhardt · State v. Brown · State v. Spencer · State v. Williams · State v. Weldon
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]onstructive possession depends on the totality of circumstances in each case.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'the intent and capability to maintain control and dominion over' it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“no evidence of joint action other than presence at the scene [,]”
2 later decisions 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.