State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1971
21 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 Salley v. Fayetteville Coca-Cola Bottling Co. · State v. . Cope · State v. Smith · Tarrant Ex Rel. Tarrant v. Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. · State v. . Brackett
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the punishment inflicted is substantial, abuse of discretion has not been shown nor has it been made to appear that the judgment pronounced comes within the constitutional inhibition against ‘cruel or unusual punishments.’ Constitution of N. C., Art. I, Sec. 14; S. v. Swindell, 189 N.C. 151 , 126 S.E. 417 ; S. v. Brackett, 218 N.C. 369 , 11 S.E. 2d 146 ; S. v. Daniels, 197 N.C. 285 , 148 S.E. 244 , and cases cited.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Brooks
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.