29 N.C. App. 574 - State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2000
21 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 Morrissey v. Brewer · State v. Hewett · State v. Caudle · State v. Braswell · State v. Pelley
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To suspend a sentence of imprisonment for a criminal act, however just the sentence may be per se, on condition that the defendant pay obligations unrelated to such criminal act, however justly owing, is a use of the criminal process to enforce the payment of a civil obligation and lends itself to the oppressive action which the provision of the Constitution was designed to forbid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“On appeal, “ ‘[t]he findings of the [trial court], and [its] judgment upon them, are not reviewable ... unless there [wajs a. manifest abuse of. . . discretion.’ ””
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.