87 N.C. App. 217 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2004
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hamling v. United States · Stanley v. Georgia · S.S. Zoe Colocotroni v. Puerto Rico · Pope v. Illinois · State v. Porter
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An error is not prejudicial unless a different result would have been reached at the trial if the error in question had not been committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonable possibility that the outcome of the trial would have been any different”
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.