17 N.C. App. 195 - State v. Jefferies’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 40 N.C. App. 318 - State v. Anderson (1979), 108 N.C. App. 219 - State v. Burton (1992)
26 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. Mobley · State v. Summrell · State v. Thomas
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t was incumbent upon the State to satisfy the jury from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that defendant violated [the relevant misdemeanor statute] in the presence of the officer, or that the officer had reasonable grounds to believe the defendant had done so, in order to establish the authority and duty of the officer to make the arrest without a warrant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“[T]he reasonableness of the officer's grounds to believe the defendant had committed a misdemeanor in the officer's presence, when properly raised, is a factual question to be decided by the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sutton“it is not essential that the offense be shown to have been actually committed.”
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.