State v. Doss’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably State v. Covington (1976), State v. Williams (1983)
103 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (International Parental Kidnapping Crime Act of 1993) · 18 U.S.C. § 2113
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Harrington v. California · Olmstead v. United States · Trop v. Dulles
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where a murder is committed in the perpetration or an attempt to perpetrate a robbery from the person, G.S. 14-17 pronounces it murder in the first degree, irrespective of premeditation or deliberation or malice aforethought. [Citations omitted.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wall · State v. Swift“"... In the decisions entered by the Supreme Court of the United States, that Court as authority for its decision in each case cited United States v. Jackson, 390 U.S. 570 , 20 L. Ed. 2d 138 , 88 S. Ct. 1209 (1968), and Pope v. United States, 392 U.S. 651 , 20 L. Ed. 2d 137 , 88 S. Ct. 2145 (1968). Neither of these cases is controlling in the case at bar. Prior to the commission of the crime charged in this case and to the trial, G.S. 15-162.1 was repealed. Under that statute any person accused of first degree murder could have tendered in writing a plea of guilty of said crime, and the State with the approval of the court could have accepted such plea, in. which case punishment was life imprisonment. G.S. 15-162.1 was similar to the Federal Kidnapping Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1201 (a), the death penalty of which was condemned in Jackson , and the Federal Bank Robbery Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2113 (e), the death penalty of which was condemned in Pope. With the repeal of G.S. 15-162.1, this infirmity insofar as the death penalty in the felony of murder in the first degree, or burglary in the first degree, or arson, or rape in North Carolina was removed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Chance““It is evident that under this statute a homicide is murder in the first degree if it results from the commission or attempted commission of one of the four specified felonies or of any other felony inherently dangerous to life, without regard to whether the death be intended or not.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Swift
How this case has been treated — in progress
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