State v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably State v. Barfield (1979), State v. Williams (2002)
114 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 Pointer v. United States · State v. McClain · State v. McClain · State v. Jarrette · State v. Arnold
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]wo or more offenses may be joined in one pleading or for trial when the offenses . . . are based on the same act or transaction or on a series of acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a single scheme or plan. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“been very liberal in admitting evidence of similar sex crimes in construing the exceptions to the general rule.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In ruling upon a motion for joinder of offenses, the trial judge should consider whether the accused can be fairly tried if joinder is permitted. If joinder would hinder or deprive defendant of his ability to present his defense, the motion should be denied. Pointer v. U.S., 151 U.S. 396 (1894); State v. Davis, 289 N.C. 500 , 223 S.E.2d 296 . However, it is well established that such a motion is ordinarily addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and his ruling will not be disturbed absent a showing of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Moses
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.