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← 279 N.C. 442 - State v. Waddell

State v. Waddell’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

36
cited by 36 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

36 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Brown (1987), State v. Porter (1981)

36 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

Relies on State v. Sneeden · State v. Carter · State v. Parker · State v. Cooper · State v. Grayson

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

  1. “A motion to dismiss [for a variance] is in order when the prosecution fails to offer sufficient evidence the defendant committed the offense charged. A variance between the criminal offense charged and the offense established by the evidence is in essence a failure of the State to establish the offense charged.”
    4 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.