State v. Cole.’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 1975
9 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. Fuller · State v. Covington · State v. Rhyne · Citizens' National Bank 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whatever difference of opinion may have existed in regard to construction of Laws 1893, chapter 85, before or at the time of the decision of Fuller's Case [ S. v. Fuller , 114 N.C. 885 ], it is now conceded that by the statute, the crime of murder in the second degree is as at common law, which is defined to be `when a person of sound memory and discretion unlawfully killeth any reasonable creature in being and under the King's peace with malice aforethought, either express or implied.' Blk. Com., star p. 195.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. . Smith
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.