State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably State v. Sturdivant (1981), State v. Hunt (2003)
64 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 Woodson v. North Carolina · State v. Sparrow · State v. Henderson · State v. Taylor · State v. Riera
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion in arrest of judgment is proper when it is apparent that no judgment against the defendant could be lawfully entered because of some fatal error appearing in (1) the organization of the court, (2) the charge made against the defendant (the information, warrant or indictment), (3) the arraignment and plea, (4) the verdict, and (5) the judgment (citations omitted).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pakulski · State v. McGaha““Rape; punishment in the first and second degree.— Every person who ravishes and carnally knows any female of the age of 12 years or more by force and against her will, or who unlawfully and carnally knows and abuses any female child under the age of 12 years, shall be guilty of rape, a.nd upon conviction, shall be punished as follows: (a) First-Degree Rape— (1) If the person guilty of rape is more than 16 years of age, and the rape victim is a virtuous female child under the age of 12 years, the punishment shall be death; or (2) If the person guilty of rape is more than 16 years of age, and the rape victim had her resistance overcome or her submission procured by the use of a deadly weapon, or by the infliction of serious bodily injury to her, the punishment shall be death. (b) Second-Degree Rape — Any other offense of rape defined in this section shall be a lesser-included offense of rape in the first degree and shall be punished by imprisonment in the State’s prison for life, or for a term of years, in the discretion of the court.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Goss“It is well settled that an indictment will not support a conviction for a crime all the elements of which crime are not accurately and clearly alleged in the indictment. State v. Taylor, 280 N.C. 273 , 185 S.E. 2d 677 (1972); State v. Sparrow, 276 N.C. 499 , 173 S.E. 2d 897 (1970); State v. Riera, 276 N.C. 361 , 172 S.E. 2d 535 (1970); State v. McBane, 276 N.C. 60 , 170 S.E. 2d 913 (1969); State v. Lackey, 271 N.C. 171 , 155 S.E. 2d 465 (1967); State v. Smith, 241 N.C. 301 , 84 S.E. 2d 913 (1954); State v. Miller, 231 N.C. 419 , 57 S.E. 2d 392 (1950); State v. Morgan, 226 N.C. 414 , 38 S.E. 2d 166 (1946); Strong’s N.C. Index 2d, Indictment and Warrant § 9. . . .”
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.