State v. Guffey’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently December 2007 · most notably State v. Noell (1974), State v. Miller (1967)
72 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. Thornton · State v. . Jackson · State v. Bass · State v. Lawrence
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We have said in a number of cases that in an indictment for robbery the kind and value of the property taken is not material— the gist of the offense is not the taking, but a taking by force or putting in fear. State v. Sawyer, 224 N.C. 61 , 29 S.E. 2d 34 ; State v. Brown, 113 N.C. 645 , 18 S.E. 51 ; State v. Burke, 73 N.C. 83 . See also State v. Mull, 224 N.C. 574 , 31 S.E. 2d 764 . However, in these cases the objection was not that there was no description but that the description was insufficient; the indictments described the property in general terms, such as ‘money’. “In our opinion an indictment for robbery must contain a description of the property sufficient, at least, to show that such property is the subject of robbery. To constitute the offense of robbery the property taken must be such as is the subject of larceny. State v. Trexler, 4 N.C. 188 ; 46 Am. Jur., Robbery, Sec. 8, p. 142.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Partlow · State v. Rogers“In instructing the jury the court is not required to recapitulate all of the evidence. The requirement of G.S. 1-180 that the judge state the evidence is met by presentation of the principal features of the evidence relied on respectively by the prosecution and defense. A party desiring further elaboration on a subordinate feature of the case must aptly tender request for further instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hunt · State v. Noell““That Lawrence Guffey . . . unlawfully, wilfully, and feloniously did make an assault on Ben Hudson and him in bodily fear and danger of his life did put, and take, steal and rob him of the value of One Thousand Dollars, from the person and possession of the said Ben Hudson, then and there did unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously, forcibly and violently take, steal and carry away. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Council
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.