State v. Douglas’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 1987 · most notably State v. Greene (1974), State v. Joyner (1979)
44 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 Linkous v. Millner · State v. Simpson · Pruitt v. . Wood · State v. Wilson · Withers v. . Lane
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no suggestion in the entire record that Lipin-sky does not run a clothing store. When the judge charged that defendant contended that Lipinsky, ‘doesn’t even sell suits of clothes,’ the jurors, recognizing the absurdity of such a contention, likely understood that the judge considered the rest of defendant’s contentions to be on a par with that one. State v. Dooley, 232 N.C. 311 , 59 S.E. 2d 808 . “A trial judge is not required to state to the jury the contentions of either the State or the defendant. In a case where the State’s evidence seems to establish defendant’s guilt conclusively, and the judge must strain credulity to state any contrary contention for defendant, his obvious solution is to state no contentions at all. A simple explanation of the effect of the plea of not guilty will fulfill the requirement.””
2 later decisions 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.