State v. Frinks’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2011
10 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 United States v. O'Brien · Snyder v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Speiser v. Randall · Freedman v. Maryland · Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . [I] t should be borne in mind that in construing this ordinance we may draw reasonable inferences and consider proper implications to the end that the ordinance may be declared valid. In so doing, we are guided by the rule that when a duty is imposed upon a public agency there arises, of necessity, an implication that adequate power is bestowed upon the agency to perform the duty in accord with the federal and state constitutions. Hill v. Lenoir County, 176 N.C. 572 , 97 S.E. 498 ; Lowery v. School Trustees, 140 N.C. 33 , 52 S.E. 267 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Keator“At the threshold of our consideration of the questions here presented we note the well-recognized rule that where a statute or ordinance is susceptible to two interpretations — one constitutional and one unconstitutional — the Court should adopt the interpretation resulting in a finding of constitutionality. State v. Frinks, 284 N.C. 472 , 201 S.E.2d 858 (1974); Randleman v. Hinshaw, 267 N.C. 136 , 147 S.E.2d 902 (1966); Finance Co. v. Leonard, 263 N.C. 167 , 139 S.E.2d 356 (1964).”
1 later decision 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.