State v. . McAfee’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1991
3 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A solicitor is the most responsible officer of the court, and has been spoken of as `its right arm.' He is a constitutional officer, elected in his district by the qualified voters thereof, and his special duties prescribed by the Constitution, Art. IV, sec. 23 (Judicial Department), `and prosecute on behalf of the State in all criminal actions in the Superior Courts, and advise the officers of justice in his district.' It is said in Lewis v. Comrs. , 74 N.C. p. 198 : `A solicitor is not a judicial officer.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. . Carden
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.