82 N.C. App. 555 - State v. Newton’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2016
12 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 Ross v. Moffitt · State v. Blackwelder · State v. Tatum · State v. Gray · State v. Parton
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that [a trial] judge may declare a mistrial if conduct inside or outside the courtroom results in substantial and irreparable prejudice to the defendant's case. Not every disruptive event occurring during the trial automatically requires the court to declare a mistrial. ... On appeal, the decision of the trial judge in this regard is entitled to the greatest respect. He is present while the events unfold and is in a position to know far better than the printed record can ever reflect, just how far the jury may have been influenced by the events occurring during the trial and whether it has been possible to erase the prejudicial effect of some emotional outburst. Therefore, unless his ruling is so clearly erroneous so as to amount to a manifest abuse of discretion, it will not be disturbed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Richardson“f[ell] short of supporting a finding that the offense was especially heinous, atrocious or cruel”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen“represent brutality beyond that found in other [such] assaults”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.