State v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Lynch (1971)
45 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 Jackson v. Denno · State v. Gray · Boles v. Stevenson · State v. Barnes · State v. Walker
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘When the State offers a confession in a criminal trial and the defendant objects on the ground it was not voluntary, the question thus raised is determined by the judge in a preliminary inquiry in the absence of the jury. . . . The trial judge hears the evidence, observes the demeanor of the witnesses and resolves the question.’ (Our italics.) S. v. Outing, 255 N.C. 468, 472 , 121 S.E. 2d 847, 849 , cert. den. 369 U.S. 807 , 7 L. Ed. 2d 555 , 82 S. Ct. 652 . Accord: S. v. Barnes, 264 N.C. 517 , 142 S.E. 2d 344 ; S. v. Gray, 268 N.C. 69 , 150 S.E. 2d 1 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Vickers
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.