95 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Major Givens’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 131 N.C. App. 514 - State v. Alston (1998), 101 N.C. App. 245 - State v. Autry (1991)
29 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. Bullard · State v. Harvey · State v. Brown · State v. Cox · State v. Allen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A lay witness must have a basis of personal knowledge for his opinion. However, a `[p]reliminary determination of personal knowledge need not be explicit but may be implied from the witness' testimony.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here possession of the premises is nonexclusive, constructive possession of the contraband materials may not be inferred without other incriminating circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“defendant's presence on the premises and close proximity to a controlled substance is a circumstance which may support an inference of constructive possession,”
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.