State v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Bell (1967), State v. Rogers (1968)
53 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. . Sawyer · State v. . Bell · State v. Kerley · State v. Chase · State v. Marsh
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`superadds to the minimum essentials of common-law robbery the additional requirement that the robbery must be committed”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““G.S. 14-87, entitled ‘Robbery with firearms or other dangerous weapons,’ creates no new offense. ‘It does not add to or subtract from the common law offense of robbery except to provide that when firearms or other dangerous weapons are used in the commission of the offense, more severe punishment may be imposed.’ [Citing authority.] It ‘superadds to the minimum essentials of common-law robbery the additional requirement that the robbery must be committed “with the use or threatened use of . . . firearms or other dangerous weapon, implement or means, whereby the life of a person is endangered or threatened.” ’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Norris“the felonious taking of money or goods of any value from the person of another, or in his presence, against his will, by violence or putting him in fear.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Harris
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.