State v. Brinson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 186 N.C. App. 57 - State v. Smith (2007), State v. Abraham (1994)
73 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. Blackwelder · State v. Coker · State v. Palmer · State v. Price · Wood-Hopkins Contracting Co. v. North Carolina State Ports Authority
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has been construed to mean only that an indictment may not be amended in a way which `would substantially alter the charge set forth in the indictment.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“is to inform a party so that he may learn with reasonable certainty the nature of the crime of which he is accused....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] bill of indictment may not be amended.”
2 later decisions 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.