20 N.C. App. 71 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2012
3 federal appellate · 16 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. Cameron · State v. Thornton
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Our Supreme Court has held, however, that possession of a controlled substance and distribution of the same controlled substance are separate -and distinct crimes, and each may be punished as provided by law, even where the possession and distribution in point of time were the same. State v. Thornton, 283 N.C. 513 , 196 S.E. 2d 701 ; State v. Cameron, 283 N.C. 191 , 195 S.E. 2d 481 .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Perry
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.