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← 21 N.C. App. 87 - State v. Brown

21 N.C. App. 87 - State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1974

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Stokes · State v. McIntosh

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Except in misdemeanor cases initiated in the District Court Division, no person shall be put to answer any criminal charge but by indictment, presentment, or impeachment. But any person, when represented by counsel, may, under such regulations as the General Assembly shall prescribe, waive indictment in noncapital cases.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[A] court has no authority to accept a plea to a charge until it has properly acquired jurisdiction.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[A] plea of guilty standing alone does not waive a jurisdictional defect.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.