92 N.C. App. 494 - State v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2017
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 State v. Pope · 58 N.C. App. 330 - State v. Davis · State v. Gray · State v. Coltrane · O'NEAL v. Wynn
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.
“an abuse of discretion, procedural conduct prejudicial to [the] defendant, circumstances which manifest inherent unfairness and injustice, or conduct which offends the public sense of fair play.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The sentencing judge may ... impose a prison term less than the applicable minimum prison term provided by this subsection, ... when such person has, to the best of his knowledge, provided substantial assistance in the identification, arrest, or conviction of any accomplices, accessories, co-conspirators, or principals....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“within the meaning of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-95 (5)(h). Defendant does not reference, and indeed, the record does not reveal, any conduct by the trial court or surrounding circumstances that would meet the standard set out in Myers and Garris and quoted in Willis . Therefore, the trial court was within its discretionary authority in not finding that defendant rendered”
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.