87 N.C. App. 626 - State v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 165 N.C. App. 337 - State v. Lanier (2004), 174 N.C. App. 105 - State v. McCoy (2005)
32 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. Odom · State v. Bullard · State v. Ramey · State v. Witherspoon · State v. Simpson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plain error rule “allows review of fundamental errors or defects in jury instructions affecting substantial rights, which were not brought to the attention of the trial court.” In order to obtain relief under this doctrine, defendant must establish that the omission was error, and that, in light of the record as a whole, the error had a probable impact on the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]ased on the [evidence], the jury could have disbelieved that a weapon was involved at all, or could have believed that any shot fired was not the result of [the] defendant's use of a weapon[,]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]here is simply no way to ascertain what verdict the jury might have reached had they been given an alternative which did not include the use of a deadly weapon.”
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.