89 N.C. App. 123 - State v. Peek’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Bernadyn v. State (2005), State v. Price (1990)
28 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. Beaver · United States v. Singer · State v. Rasor · 78 N.C. App. 358 - Martin v. Hare · State v. Minor
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]rom the sender's conduct in writing or affixing the name and address and mailing the material so addressed ... it may be inferred that the sender believes the person named lives at that address.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence showed that a telephone bill and other pieces of mail, addressed to [the] defendant. . . were found in [a] bedroom; that [the] defendant’s minor son appeared at the house during the . . . search . . . that [the] defendant was arrested inside the house ten days later; and that contraband was found in four different rooms, some of it in plain view and some of it hidden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court may properly instruct the jury that it may infer a defendant’s constructive possession of contraband from his control of the premises if the instruction clearly leaves it to the jury to decide whether to make the inference. Here, the trial court properly instructed the jury on the inference. Defendant’s assignment of error is without merit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tuggle
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.