State v. Meadows’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2000
12 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 Johnson v. United States · State v. Blackwell · State v. Milano · State v. Parrish · State v. Foye
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘The constituent elements of burglary in the first degree are: (1) the breaking (2) and entering (3) in the nighttime (4) into a dwelling house or a room used as a sleeping apartment (5) which is actually occupied at the time of the offense (6) with the intent to commit a felony therein.’ State v. Person, 298 N.C. 765, 768 , 259 S.E.2d 867, 868 (1979). The breaking and entry of the dwelling must be without the consent of anyone authorized to give consent. State v. Boone, 297 N.C. 652 , 256 S.E.2d 683 (1979); State v. Friddle, 223 N.C. 258 , 25 S.E.2d 751 (1943); State v. Goffney, 157 N.C. 624 , 73 S.E. 162 (1911); State v. Rowe, 98 N.C. 629 , 4 S.E. 506 (1887); State v. Tolley, 30 N.C. App. 213 , 226 S.E.2d 672 , disc. rev. denied, 291 N.C. 178 , 229 S.E.2d 691 (1976); Annot., Burglary — Entry with Consent, 93 A.L.R. 2d 531 (1964).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Upchurch · State v. Oliver
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.