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← 306 S.C. 268 - State v. Dowd

State v. Dowd’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
April 2011
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 11 N.C. App. 344 - State v. Leak · Hadley v. . Tinnin

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.

  1. “[a]n arrest does not necessarily terminate the instant a person is taken into custody; arrest also includes bringing the person personally within the custody and control of the law.”
    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.