State v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Foust (1963)
80 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. Simmons · State v. . Reddick · State v. . Brackett · State v. . Payne · State v. Utley
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) Murder in the first degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice and with premeditation and deliberation. (2) .Murder in the second degree is the unlawful killing of a human being with malice, but without premeditation and deliberation. And (3) manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice and without premeditation and deliberation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is a well settled rule in North Carolina that the burden is upon the appellant to show prejudicial error amounting to a denial of some substantial right and in the absence of such showing there is no reversible error. Kennedy v. James, 252 N.C. 434 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jarrett“The evidence is to be considered in the light most favorable to the State; the State is entitled to every reasonable intendment and every reasonable inference to be drawn therefrom; ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Robbins
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.