43 N.C. App. 600 - State v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2014
11 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 Meeks v. Havener · Fowler v. North Carolina · State v. Thompson · State v. Alford · Williams v. North Carolina
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen [unintended] death results from the operation of a motor vehicle by an intoxicated person ..., [and] the owner [of the vehicle] is present in the vehicle and ... with his knowledge and consent permits the intoxicated person to operate the vehicle[, the owner] is as guilty [of manslaughter] as the intoxicated driver.”
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.