State v. Pipkins’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably State v. Fernandez (1997), United States v. Brandon (2001)
3 federal appellate · 36 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 Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · State v. Gardner · State v. Perry · State v. Murray
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unlike N.C.G.S. S 90-95(a)(3), which combats the perceived evil of individual possession of controlled substances,[the trafficking statute], by its language, is intended to prevent the large-scale distribution of controlled substances to the public.”
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.