State v. Hovis’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 1985 · most notably State v. Foust (1963), State v. Brooks (1963)
43 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 State v. . Harvey · State v. . Boyd · State v. . Robinson · State v. . Watts · State v. . Stansell
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"-::- -sphere one engages in an unlawful and dangerous act, such as 'fooling with an old gun,’ i.e., using a loaded pistol in a careless and reckless manner, or pointing it at another, and kills the other by accident, he would be guilty of an unlawful homicide or manslaughter. G.S. 14-34; S. v. Vines, 93 N.C. 493 ; S. v. Trollinger, 162 N.C. 618 , 77 S.E. 957 ; S. v. Limerick, 146 N.C. 649 , 61 S.E. 568 . “Involuntary manslaughter has been defined to be, ‘Where death results unintentionally, so far as the defendant is concerned, from an unlawful act on his part not amounting to a felony, or from a lawful act negligently done.’ [Citing authority.]””
5 later decisions 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.