Therrell v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 1988 · most notably State v. Lee (1970), State v. Baxter (1974)
26 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 Glenn Ex Rel. Glenn v. City of Raleigh · Chambers Ex Rel. Chambers v. Allen · Hawkins Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Simpson · Kennedy v. James · Godwin v. Hinnant
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the duty of the trial court to declare and explain the law arising on the evidence as to all substantial features of the case, without any special prayer for instructions to that effect, and a mere declaration of the law in general terms and a statement of the contentions of the parties is insufficient. . . .” Therrell v. Freeman, 256 N.C. 552 , 124 S.E. 2d 522 (1962).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.