3 N.C. App. 348 - Vinson v. Chappell’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably 147 N.C. App. 670 - State v. Arnold (2001), 101 N.C. App. 90 - Thomas v. Overland Express, Inc. (1990)
25 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 McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · State v. Ballance · State v. Hales · Smith v. Peterson · Board of Managers of the James Walker Memorial Hospital v. City of Wilmington
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a court will not ordinarily substitute its judgment for that of the Legislature”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“declare what the law is ... [not] what the law ought to be.”
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.