Darden v. Bone’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 1994 · most notably State v. Colson (1968), State v. Kirby (1970)
40 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. · Barnette v. Woody · Steelman v. . Benfield · EL LOWIE & COMPANY v. Atkins · State v. . Dilliard
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Assignments of Error 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 relate to the court's charge and are insufficient in that they do not present-the error relied upon without the necessity of going beyond the assignment itself to learn what the question is and the particular portion of the charge to which the defendant objects is not specifically pointed out. ‘The assignment must particularize and point out specifically wherein the court failed to charge the law arising on the evidence.’ (Citing cases) “It is clear that the Rules of the Court have not been complied with in the assignments of error as herein above enumerated. Rule 21 requires an appellant to state briefly and clearly his exceptions. Rule 19 (3) requires that the exceptions taken be grouped and the error complained of concisely but definitely set out as a part of the assignment. ‘The Court will not consider assignments not based on specific exceptions and which do not comply with its rules.’ Travis v. Johnston, 244 N.C. 713 , 95 S.E. 2d 94 . What the Court requires is that exceptions which are presented to the Court for decision shall be stated clearly and intelligibly by the assignment of error, and. not by referring to the record and therewith there shall be set out so much of the evidence or other matter of circumstance as shall be necessary to present clearly the matter to be debated. In this way the scope of inquiry is narrowed to the identical points which the appellant thinks are material and essential, and the Cour”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pratt v. Bishop
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.