State v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2006
16 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. Kirby · State v. McMorris · State v. Strickland · State v. Cox · State v. Brooks
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our former Rules . . ., the appeal itself constituted an exception to the judgment and presented for review any error appearing on the face of the record proper. [Citations omitted.] Our present Rules of Appellate Procedure, effective 1 July 1975, obliterated the former distinction between the “record proper” and the “settled case on appeal.” Instead, the single concept of “record on appeal” is used and the composition of the record on appeal is governed by Rule 9(b), Rules of Appellate Procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, the jury had ample opportunity to view the defendant and estimate his age. See State v. Evans, 298 N.C. 263 , 258 S.E.2d 354 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.