State v. Spicer’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably State v. Harris (1976), State v. Abernathy (1978)
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. Bailey · State v. Bass · State v. Hart · State v. . Roberson · State v. Hooker
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`While the court is not required to give the instruction in the exact language of the request, if request be made for a specific instruction, which is correct in itself and supported by evidence, the court must give the instruction at least in substance.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““To render one guilty as an accessary before the fact to a felony he must counsel, incite, induce, procure or encourage the commission of the crime, so as to, in some way, participate therein by word or act. ... It is not necessary that he shall be the originator of the design to commit the crime; it is sufficient if, with knowledge that another intends to commit a crime, he encourages and incites him to carry out his design. ...” 255 N.C. at 51-52 , 120 S.E. 2d at 587 . See also State v. Branch, 288 N.C. 514 , 220 S.E. 2d 495 (1975); State v. Spicer, 285 N.C. 274 , 204 S.E. 2d 641 (1974).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Sauls
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.