92 N.C. App. 523 - State v. Fink’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably 185 N.C. App. 227 - State v. Wood (2007), 135 N.C. App. 13 - State v. Lundy (1999)
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 Bruton v. United States · Gerry v. United States · United States v. Kissel · First National Bank v. United States · State v. Green
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“need not be written if made at a hearing, and, in the judge's discretion, the motion may be made orally even at the beginning of trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A conspiracy `may be, and generally is, established by a number of indefinite acts, each of which, standing alone, might have little weight, but, taken collectively, . . . point unerringly' to its existence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the offenses charged are 'part of the same act or transaction' or are 'so closely connected in time, place, and occasion that it would be difficult to separate proof of one charge from proof of the others.'”
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.