90 N.C. App. 712 - State v. Ruffin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2010
2 district · 19 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 · Pope v. Nebraska · Board of Trade v. Commodity Futures Trading Commission · State v. Westbrook · State v. Joyner
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon written motion of the prosecutor, charges against two or more defendants may be joined for trial: . . . b. When, even if all of the defendants are not charged with accountability for each offense, the several offenses charged: 1. Were part of a common scheme or plan; or 2. Were part of the same act or transaction; or 3. Were so closely connected in time, place and occasion that it would be difficult to separate proof of one charge from proof of the others.”
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.