Raper v. Berrier’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably State v. Pope (1962), Virmani v. Presbyterian Health Services Corp. (1999)
33 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 Meredith v. City of Winter Haven · Interstate Commerce Commission v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Biddix v. Rex Mills, Inc. · Reid v. Johnston · Citizens Bank & Trust Co. v. Reid Motor Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he tradition of our courts is that their hearings shall be open. The Constitution of North Carolina so provides, Article I, Section 35 [now Section 18]. The public, and especially the parties are entitled to see and hear what goes on in the courts. . . . That courts are open is one of the sources of their greatest strength.”
4 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.