State v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 1972
5 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. Ellison · State v. . Lassiter · State v. . Whitaker · State v. . Parker · State v. . Barbee
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . It is not sufficiently responsive to the issue; and whenever a verdict is imperfect, informal, insensible, or one that is not responsive to the indictment, the jury may be directed to reconsider it with proper instructions as to the form in which it should be rendered. 1 Arch. Cr. Prac. & Pl., 176, note 4; State v. Arrington, 7 N.C. 571 . (Emphasis added). “But if such a verdict is received by the court and recorded, it would be error to pronounce judgment upon it. The most regular course would be to set aside the verdict and order a venire de novo.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ingram““It appears upon the face of the record proper that the verdict is insufficient to support a judgment. S. v. Lassiter, 208 N.C. 251 , 179 S.E. 891 . See also S. v. Shew, 194 N.C. 690 , 140 S.E. 621 ; S. v. Barbee, 197 N.C. 248 , 148 S.E. 249 . . . . “. . . the verdict ‘Guilty of possession’ is without specific reference to the charge, and is insufficient to support a judgment; and defendant is entitled to a venire de novo.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ingram
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.