State v. Browning’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Ramey · State v. Aguallo · Williford v. Williford · State v. McCoy · State v. Thomas
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We now hold that article 3B of chapter 148 of the General Statutes of North Carolina [committed youthful offender statute] does not apply to a conviction or plea of guilty of a sexual offense in the first degree, N.C.G.S. § 14-27.4 (1986), for which the punishment is mandatory life imprisonment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rhinehart
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.