State v. Glidden’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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 United States v. Batchelder · In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge Hardy · State v. Hageman · Campbell v. First Baptist Church of Durham · State v. Parker
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.
“`[C]riminal statutes are to be strictly construed against the State.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Common law obstruction of justice, the offense with which defendant was charged, is ordinarily a misdemeanor. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-3 (b) provides that a misdemeanor may be elevated to a felony if the indictment alleges that the offense is infamous, done in secrecy and malice, or done with deceit and intent to defraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If a misdemeanor offense as to which no specific punishment is prescribed be infamous, done in secrecy and malice, or with deceit and intent to defraud, the offender shall, except where the offense is a conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor, be guilty of a Class H felony.”
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.