State v. Guffey’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably State v. Felmet (1981), State v. Petersilie (1993)
30 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. Williams · State v. Thomas · State v. Thomas · State v. Stone · State v. Hall
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]he Superior Court has no jurisdiction to try an accused for a specific misdemeanor on the warrant of an inferior court unless he is first tried and convicted for such misdemeanor in the inferior court and appeals to the Superior Court from the sentence pronounced against, him by the inferior court on his conviction for such misdemeanor.’ ” State v. Guffey, 283 N.C. 94, 96 , 194 S.E. 2d 827, 829 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Craig · State v. Caldwell
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.