96 N.C. App. 19 - State v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently January 2014
13 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. Ramey · State v. Shane · State v. McElrath · 78 N.C. App. 493 - State v. Knox · State v. Williams
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e find that this is essentially a case of who and what to believe — the prosecutrix’ accusations or defendant’s claim of innocence. There was no medical or other physical evidence presented by the State in support of the prosecutrix’ claims. There were no eye witnesses [sic] to these alleged events; therefore, the outcome of this case depended upon the jury’s perception of the truthfulness of each witness. Consequently, the court’s admission of evidence which could inflame the jury and cause a verdict to be entered on an improper basis, such as emotion, was prejudicial. In the absence of this extensive, highly prejudicial evidence, which was of questionable relevance and which tended to make defendant appear to be a sexual deviant, we cannot say that a different result could not have been reached.”
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.