State v. . Mays’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably State v. Garcia (2004), State v. Rogers (1951)
75 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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bill of indictment charges the capital felony of murder in the language prescribed by statute. G.S., 15-144. [Formerly C.S. 4614.] It contains every averment necessary to be made. S. v. Arnold, 107 N.C., 861 ; . . . Proof that the murder was committed in the perpetration of a felony constitutes no variance between allegata and probata. (Citing <S. v. Fogleman.) If the defendant desired more definite information he had the right to request a bill of particulars, in the absence of which he has no cause to complain.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moore · State v. Frazier
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.