State v. Tomblin’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably State v. Silhan (1981), State v. Abernathy (1978)
60 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. Parrish · State v. Hall · State v. Meshaw · State v. Williford · State v. . Norton
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘Now, members of the jury, on the charge of rape, the court charges you that if you are satisfied from the evidence and beyond a reasonable doubt that either one or all of these defendants had carnal knowledge, had sexual intercourse, forcibly and against the will of [the victim] on this occasion, that is, if either of these or all of these had carnal knowledge of [the victim] without her consent and against her will ... it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of rape as charged in the bill of indictment .... (Exception No. 14)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Oliphant · State v. Silhan““Members of the jury, I charge that if you find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that on or about June 13, 1977, J. B. Curl and Roger Booth knowingly possessed phencyclidine and intended to sell phencyclidine it would be your duty to return a verdict of guilty of possessing phen-cyclidine with intent to sell it. However, if you do not so find, or if you have a reasonable doubt as to one or more of these things it would be your duty to return a verdict of not guilty.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““This Court has repeatedly held that, when two or more defendants are jointly tried for the same offense, a charge which is susceptible to the construction that the jury should convict all if it finds one guilty is reversible error. State v. Williford, 275 N.C. 575 , 169 S.E. 2d 851 ; State v. Parrish, 275 N.C. 69 , 165 S.E. 2d 230 ; State v. Harvell, 256 N.C. 104 , 123 S.E. 2d 103 ; State v. Miller, 253 N.C. 334 , 116 S.E. 2d 790 ; State v. Meshaw, 246 N.C. 205 , 98 S.E. 2d 13 ; State v. Wolfe, 227 N.C. 461 , 42 S.E. 2d 515 , State v. Walsh, 224 N.C. 218 , 29 S.E. 2d 743; State v. Norton, 222 N.C. 418 , 23 S.E. 2d 301 .””
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.