State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably State v. Young (1985), 127 N.C. App. 505 - Matter of Helms (1997)
120 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 Johnson v. United States · State v. Accor · State v. Vinson · State v. Blackwell · State v. Frank
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Constructive breaking, as distinguished from actual forcible breaking, may be classed under the following heads: “1. When entrance is obtained by threats, as if the felon threatens to set fire to the house unless the door is opened. “2. When, in consequence of violence commenced, or threatened in order to obtain entrance, the owner, with a view more effectually to repel it, opens the door and sallies out, and the felon enters. “3. When entrance is obtained by procuring the servants or some inmate to remove the fastening. “4. When some process of law is fraudulently resorted to for the purpose of obtaining an entrance. “5. When some trick is resorted to to induce the owner to remove the fastening and open the door, and the felon enters; as, if one knocks at the door, under pretense of business, or counterfeits the voice of a friend, and, the door being opened, enters.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“To convict a defendant of burglary, `the State's evidence must show that there was a breaking and entering during the nighttime of a dwelling or sleeping apartment with intent to commit a felony therein.... If the burglarized dwelling is occupied it is burglary in the first degree.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Questions raised by assignments of error in appeals from trial tribunals but not then presented and discussed in a party's brief, are deemed abandoned.”
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.