31 N.C. App. 93 - State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 341 Pa. Super. 183 - Commonwealth v. Heck (1985), 90 N.C. App. 161 - State v. Smith (1988)
26 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. Stephens · State v. Goines · State v. Riera · State v. Bolin · State v. Massey
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Whoever shall unintentionally cause the death of another person while engaged in the violation of any State law or local ordinance applying to the operation or use of a vehicle or to the regulation of traffic shall be guilty of death by vehicle when such violation is the proximate cause of said death.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Thompson · State v. Baum“by instructing the jury on death by vehicle as a lesser included offense of manslaughter, the court violated the provisions of [N.C.]G.S. [§] 20-141.4(c), which state that “. . . no person who has been placed in jeopardy upon a charge of manslaughter shall subsequently be prosecuted for death by vehicle arising out of the same death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elmore“death by vehicle cannot be considered a lesser included offense of involuntary manslaughter because of the “mutual exclusiveness” between the two offenses and because the legislature would have stated expressly in the statute that death by vehicle is a lesser included offense of manslaughter if it had intended such a result.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Elmore
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.