State v. Drumgold’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2004 · most notably Beck v. Alabama (1980), State v. Kennedy (1987)
44 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. Harvey · Fowler v. North Carolina · State v. Palmer · State v. Dull
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that ‘a defendant is entitled to have all lesser degrees of offenses supported by the evidence submitted to the jury as possible alternate verdicts.’ State v. Palmer, 293 N.C. 633, 643-44 , 239 S.E. 2d 406, 413 (1977). On the. other hand, the trial court need not submit lesser degrees of a crime to the jury ‘when the State’s evidence is positive as to. each and every element of the crime charged and there is no conflicting evidence relating to any element of the charged crime. ’ State v. Harvey, 281 N.C. 1, 13-14 , 187 S.E. 2d 706, 714 (1972). (Emphasis added.)””
2 later decisions 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.