State v. Sellers’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably State v. Fox (1970), State v. Bell (1967)
28 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. Birchfield · State v. Gaines · State v. Horner · State v. Kelly · State v. Cooper
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When two or more persons aid and abet each other in the commission of a crime, all are principals and equally guilty.’ State v. Horner, 248 N.C. 342 , 103 S.E. 2d 694 . The defendant not only collaborated with Yopp in planning and setting the stage for the robbery and in escaping with the stolen money, but also waited and watched, armed with a pistol, near enough to the scene to render aid if needed. Thus, he was constructively present when the robbery actually occurred and is guilty as a principal in the second degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bell
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.