In Re Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 1977 · most notably Jernigan v. State (1971), State v. Greenlee (1968)
33 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is true, of course, that the intention of the court imposing the sentence should prevail where clearly expressed. * * * Anno. 70 A.L.R. 1512 . But we do not think this implies that such intention should be sought through evidence dehors the record — at least such as is here made necessary; that it is open to the same sort of proof as if the judge were writing a will or making a contract. “A sentence is not merely a directive from which those who are to execute it may obtain information as to the extent of that duty, but, put on the official court record, it is a guarantee to the prisoner that prosecution will not again be attempted within its scope and that punishment shall not exceed its reasonably definite limits.” Ex parte Parker, 225 N.C. 369 , 35 S.E.2d 169 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Glisson v. State“The question here is not merely one of the intention of the judge imposing the sentence, and the method of ascertaining it; it is also a question of the adequate expression of that intent within acceptable standards of certainty in dealing with the liberty and lives of those charged with violations of the law. Ex parte Parker, 35 S.E.2d 169, 172 (N.C. 1945).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ward v. State
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.