State v. . Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently June 1975
7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the Common Law which, by virtue of the statute G.S. Section 4-1, is in force in this state, and with respect to the point presented remains unchanged, when a statute, in the interest of the public, commands an act be done or forbids an act, and, no penalty is expressly provided for its nonobservance or breach, the offending person may be punished as for a misdemeanor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a statute prohibited a matter of public grievance, or commanded a matter of public convenience, all acts or omissions contrary to the prohibition or command of the statute, being misdemeanors at common law, are punishable by indictment, if the statute specifies no other mode of proceeding,”
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.