State v. . Ray’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1981
22 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“convicted of willfully violating G.S. 20-166, relative to the duties to stop in the event of accidents... involving injury or death to a person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fearing · State v. Fearing“It would be a manifest absurdity to expect or require the driver of a motor vehicle to perform the acts specified in the statute in the absence of knowledge that his vehicle had been involved in an accident resulting in injury to some person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fearing
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.