State v. . Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1975
14 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 John Mallett v. State of North Carolina · State v. . Mays · State v. . Graham · State v. . Walker · State v. . Moore
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The prisoners also except because, after the court had made an order that no witness for the State or for the prisoners should be allowed in the courtroom during the trial, a witness for the State who remained in the courtroom was permitted to testify. The prisoners moved for a nonsuit on that ground, and also to set aside the verdict, and excepted to the denial of these motions. But it is a matter in the discretion of the court whether such witness (728) shall be examined or not. 12 Cyc. 547. The same point was made in S. v. Hodges , 142 N.C. 676 , and it was held that this was a matter which rested in the discretion of the presiding judge. The same ruling was made in S. v. Sparrow , 7 N.C. 487 , and Purnell v. Purnell , 89 N.C. 42 , and is stated as settled law in the text-books. 1 Greenleaf Ev., secs. 431 and 432 and notes, and 2 Bishop New Criminal Proceedings (2 Ed.), secs. 1191 to 1193a.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Davis
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.