State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently November 1976 · most notably State v. Brown (1957), State v. Randall (1960)
32 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 Doss v. State · State v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Haywood · State v. Turner · People v. Hope
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the statute G. S. 1935, 21-450, the crime of kidnapping in the second degree is complete when without lawful authority a person is forcibly seized with intent to secretly confine him in this state against his will.” (Sybil.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cox 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.