State v. Gatling’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 1999 · most notably State v. Henderson (1974), State v. Taylor (1972)
76 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 United States v. Wade · Stovall v. Denno · Gilbert v. California · State v. Goldberg · State v. Rogers
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . Technical errors which are not substantial and which could not have affected the result will not be held prejudicial. State v. Norris, 242 N.C. 47 , 86 S.E. 2d 916 . It is not sufficient to show that a critical examination of the judge’s words, detached from the context and the incidents of the trial, are capable of an interpretation frowhich an expression of opinion may be inferred. State v. Jones, 67 N.C. 285 .” State v. Gatling, 275 N.C. 625 , 170 S.E. 2d 593 (1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Allen
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.