State v. Ballard’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
84 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably State v. Irick (1977), State v. Porter (1981)
84 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Benton v. Maryland · State v. Birckhead · State v. . Sawyer · 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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is a fundamental and sacred principle of the common law, deeply imbedded in our criminal jurisprudence, . that no person can be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb for the same offense. [Citations omitted.] It was incorporated in the Bill of Rights of the Federal Constitution. (United States Constitution, Amendment V.) While the principle is not stated in express terms in the North Carolina Constitution, it has been regarded as an integral part of the “law of the land” within the meaning of Art. I, sec. 17 [now sec. 19]. [Citation omitted.]’ State v. Crocker, 239 N.C. 446, 449 , 80 S.E. 2d 243, 245 (1954). “Overruling prior decisions, the Supreme Court of the United States held in Benton v. Maryland, 395 U.S. 784 , 23 L.Ed. 2d 707, 89 S.Ct. 2056 (1969), that the double-jeopardy clause of the Fifth Admendment is applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Beaty“The duty of Kane Parsons to his employer would have required him to intervene to protect the property if he could have done so without further endangering his life. (Kane Parsons testified on voir dire that he was the assistant manager of this A & P store.) The fact that he happened to be farther from the property than Pat Britt and Nolan Smith when it was actually taken into possession by the robbers does not negate the fact it was taken from the presence of Parsons and all other employees then on duty in the store.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Potter
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.