State v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably State v. Pinch (1982), State v. Atkins (1998)
49 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 Gregory v. United States · State v. Covington · State v. Sparrow · State v. Monk · State v. Taylor
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his is, ... a matter for administrative action, as provided by G.S. 15-196.4, rather than a subject to be considered on ... appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Tart
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.