State v. . Rountree’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1973 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pentz (1924), State v. Becker (1955)
23 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The degree of negligence necessary to be shown on an indictment for manslaughter, where an unintentional killing is established, is such recklessness or carelessness as is incompatible with a proper regard for human life. S. v. Gash , 177 N.C. 595 ; S. v. McIver , 175 N.C. 761 ; S. v. Tankersley , 172 N.C. 955 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Leonard
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.