State v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2018
22 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. Rogers · State v. McCoy · State v. Streeton · State v. . Whitener · State v. . Spivey
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In this enlightened age the humanity of the law is such that no man shall suffer death as a penalty for crime, except upon conviction in a trial free from substantial error and in which the constitutional and statutory safeguards for the protection of his rights have been scrupulously observed. Therefore, in all capital cases reaching this Court, it is the settled policy to examine the record for the ascertainment of reversible error. S. v. Watson, 208 N.C. 70 , 179 S.E. 455 ; S. v. Stovall, 214 N.C. 695 , 200 S.E. 426 ; S. v. Moore, 216 N.C. 543 , 5 S.E. 2d 719 ; S. v. Williams, 216 N.C. 740 , 6 S.E. 2d 492 ; S. v. Page, 217 N.C. 288 , 7 S.E. 2d 559 ; S. v. Morrow, 220 N.C. 441 , 17 S.E. 2d 507 ; S. v. Brooks, 224 N.C. 627 , 31 S.E. 2d 754 ; S. v. West, 229 N.C. 416 , 50 S.E. 2d 3 ; S. v. Garner, 230 N.C. 66 , 51 S.E. 2d 895 . If, upon such an examination, error is found, it then becomes the duty of the Court upon its own motion to recognize and act upon the error so found. S. v. Sermons, 212 N.C. 767 , 194 S.E. 469 . This rule obtains whether the prisoner be prince or pauper.” # * * . . (W)hile an inaccurate statement of facts contained in the evidence should be called to the attention of the court during or at the conclusion of the charge in order that the error might be corrected, a statement of a material fact not shown in the evidence constitutes reversible error. S. v. Love. 187 N.C. 32 , 121 S.E. 20 .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Gregory · State v. Fowler“. . (W)hile the error is not assigned by the defendant, nevertheless, since we are here dealing with a capital case, we take cognizance of the error ex mero motu.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Fowler“permitted the jury to rest its verdict on a theory not supported by the evidence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Malachi
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.