State v. Belk’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Black (1983)
88 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. Hamilton · State v. Carter · State v. Simpson · State v. Canipe · 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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . The judge should be the embodiment of even and exact justice. He should at all times be on the alert, lest, in an unguarded moment, something be incautiously said or done to shake the wavering balance which, as a minister of justice, he is supposed, figuratively speaking, to hold in his hands. Every suitor is entitled by the law to have his cause considered with the ‘cold neutrality of the impartial judge,’ and the equally unbiased mind of a properly instructed jury. This right can neither be denied nor abridged. . . . ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Greene · State v. Swinney“`The trial judge occupies an exalted station . . . [and] must abstain from conduct or language which tends to discredit or prejudice the accused or his cause with the jury.'”
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.