State v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Hunt (1973), State v. Ham (1953)
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.
Relationships
Relies on Bird v. United States · Lewis v. . Watson · McNeill v. . McNeill · State v. . Friddle · State v. . Jackson
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 a person is on trial, charged with having committed a statutory crime, it is not sufficient for the court merely to read the statute under which he stands indicted. The statute should be explained, the essential elements of the crime thereby created outlined and the law as thus defined should be applied to the evidence in the case, [citations omitted] This ‘calls for instructions as to the law upon all substantial features of the case.’ ” State v. Sutton, 230 N.C. 244 , 52 S.E. 2d 921 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The chief object contemplated in the charge of the judge is to explain the law of the case, to point out the essentials to be proved on the one side and on the other, and to bring into view the relation of the particular evidence adduced to the particular issue involved. Bird v. U.S., 180 U.S. 356 , 45 L.Ed., 570 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Evidence of an alibi is substantive and the defendant was entitled to an instruction as to the legal effect of his evidence of alibi, if believed and accepted by the jury. State v. Melton, 187 N.C. 481 , 122 S.E. 17 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunt
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.