State v. Spillars’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably State v. Spencer (1972), State v. Maynard (1984)
92 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 Brinegar v. United States · Jones v. United States · State v. Vestal · State v. Williams · State v. McClain
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not necessary that the affidavit contain all the evidence properly presented to the magistrate. State v. Elder, 217 N.C. 111 , 6 S.E. 2d 840 . G.S. 15-26 (b) requires only that the affidavit indicate the basis for the finding of probable cause. We do not interpret this portion of the statute to impose a requirement upon the magistrate to transcribe all the evidence before him supporting probable cause. Such an interpretation would impose an undue and unnecessary burden upon the process of law enforcement.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bandy · State v. Spencer““The validity of a search warrant, the legality of a search, and the admissibility of evidence obtained by the search are. matters of law to be determined by the trial judge. Determination of these questions is not for the jury’s consideration. State v. Reams, 277 N.C. 391 , 178 S.E. 2d 65 ; State v. Vestal, 278 N.C. 561 , 180 S.E. 2d 755 ; State v. Myers, 266 N.C. 581 , 146 S.E. 2d 674 ; State v. Moore, 240 N.C. 749 , 83 S.E. 2d 912 . It is error to allow a search warrant together with the affidavit to obtain search warrant to be introduced into evidence because the statements and allegations contained in the affidavit are hearsay statements which deprive the accused of his rights of confrontation and cross-examination. See State v. Oakes, 249 N.C. 282 , 106 S.E. 2d 206 .””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is not necessary that ownership of the property be laid in a particular person in order to allege and prove armed robbery. The gist of the offense of robbery is the taking by force or putting in fear. An indictment for robbery will not fail if the description of the property is sufficient to show it to be the subject of robbery and negates the idea that the accused was taking his own property. [Citations omitted.]”
3 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.