154 N.C. App. 737 - State v. Cates’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rummel v. Estelle · Bell v. United States · State v. Todd · 78 N.C. App. 572 - State v. Boykin · 146 N.C. App. 590 - State v. Brown
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Habitual felon laws have withstood scrutiny under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution in our Supreme Court and in the United States Supreme Court.”
2 later decisions 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.