State v. Koberlein’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Empire Power Co. v. N. C. Department of Environment (1994), State v. Raines (1987)
29 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 Matter of Banks · Lafayette Transportation Service, Inc. v. County of Robeson · 49 N.C. App. 665 - State v. Boltinhouse · State v. Young · 53 N.C. App. 567 - State v. Charles
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here the words of a statute have not acquired a technical meaning, they must be construed in accordance with their common and ordinary meaning unless a different meaning is apparent or indicated by the context.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When enacting the statute under review here [G.S. § 15A-701(al)], we assume that the legislature intended the phrase “whichever occurs last” to have its ordinary meaning and to indicate that, of the triggering events listed in the statute, that event occurring last in fact will trigger the running of the 120 day period within which the defendant must be brought to trial. (Emphasis in original.) Where, as here, the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, there is not room for judicial construction and the courts must give the statute its plain and definite meaning as adopted by the legislature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lineberger“[t]he trial of the defendant charged with a criminal offense shall begin within the time limits specified below: (1) Within 120 days from the date the defendant is arrested, served with criminal process, waives an indictment, or is indicted, whichever occurs last. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lineberger
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.