State v. . Norris’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 2005
6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In S. v. Thornton, 35 N.C. 256 (257-258): ‘A nolle prosequi in criminal proceedings, is nothing but a declaration, on the part of the prosecuting officer, that he will not at that time prosecute the suit further. Its effect is to put the defendant without day— that is, he is discharged and permitted to leave the court, without entering into a recognizance to appear at any other time— 1 Ch. Cr. L., 480; but it does not operate as an acquittal, for he may afterwards be again indicted for the same offense, or fresh process may be issued 'against him upon the same indictment, and he be tried upon it. 6 Mod., 261; 1 Sal., 21.’ S. v. Smith, 129 N.C. 546 ; S. v. Faggart, 170 N.C. 737 (744); Wilkinson v. Wilkinson, 159 N.C., 265 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Clayton
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.