State v. McGill’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2009 · most notably 87 N.C. App. 380 - State v. Rich (1987), 122 N.C. App. 369 - State v. Carr (1996)
40 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 State v. Irick · State v. Stepney · State v. Overman · State v. Swift · 5 Smith & H. 364 - Dowdy v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]ultiple punishment is one facet of the prohibition against double jeopardy.... That rule applies `[w]here two or more offenses of the same nature are by statute carved out of the same transaction and are properly the subject of a single investigation.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is clear that the State charged the defendant with both these offenses so that the evidence would conform to the pleadings under either means of proving felonious possession. An election is not required in this situation. . . . Although the charges here were contained in two separate indictments, they may be treated as separate counts of the same indictment. See, e.g., State v. Stephens, 170 N.C. 745 , 87 S.E. 131 (1915). In this case the judge instructed the members of the jury to first consider the offense of possession with intent to sell or deliver marijuana. If and only if they found him not guilty of that offense were they to consider the charge of possession of more than one ounce of marijuana. The able trial judge followed the correct procedure in this situation. See State v. Meshaw, 246 N.C. 205 , 98 S.E. 2d 13 (1957).”
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.