Carter v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2013
most recently cited
1 district · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Cline v. State · Poon v. State · Knight v. State · Turner v. City of Wilmington
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he General Assembly must have intended that the fact finder consider the actual circumstances and not any conceivable circumstance under which the instrument might have been used. The `circumstances' to be considered must include the actor's intent and manner of use.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simon v. State
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.