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← 274 S.C. 316 - State v. Carson

State v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
August 2014
most recently cited

8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2014

8 state decisions

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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

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 4

Relies on Bullock v. United States · United States v. Johnson · Nuckolls v. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. · Coakley v. Tidewater Construction Corp.

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] criminal neglect either to prevent a felony from being committed or to bring the offender to justice after its commission, but without such previous concert with, or subsequent assistance of, him as will make the concealer an accessory before or after the fact.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Smith · State v. Smith
  2. “[w]hile it is true the privilege sometimes works to bar prosecution for misprision, this is only when the statements concealed would incriminate the defendant as an accessory or principal in the protected felony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Smith
  3. “Under the federal and state statutes embodying the offense, mere silence or failure to come forward is not enough to constitute misprision; there must be some positive act of concealment of the felony.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Smith

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.