State v. . Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably State v. . Litteral (1947), Chambers v. State (1994)
38 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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When, and only when, an incomplete, imperfect, insensible, or repugnant verdict or a verdict which is not responsive to the issues or indictment is returned, the court may decline to accept it and direct the jury to retire, reconsider the matter, and bring in a proper verdict. S. v. Arrington, 7 N.C. 571 ; S. v. McKay, 150 N.C. 813, 63 S.E. 1059 ; & v. Bazemore, supra [ 193 N.C. 336 , 137 S.E. 172 ]; S. v. Noland, 204 N.C. 329 , 168 S.E. 412 ; Queen v. DeHart, 209 N.C. 414 , 184 S.E. 7 .”’”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. State · State v. Hemphill“While the general rule is that a verdict is not complete until it is accepted by the court, nevertheless the rule seems to be that if a proper verdict is returned, one that is permissible under the charge and complete in itself. . . the court should have accepted it and directed its entry into the records as the verdict of the jury.”
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.