State v. . Stephenson’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably State v. Lee (1998), 87 N.C. App. 512 - Robinson v. Seaboard System RR, Inc. (1987)
44 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he word `willfully' means `something more than an intention to commit the offense.' ... `It implies committing the offense purposely and designedly in violation of law.'”
3 later decisions 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.