46 N.C. App. 200 - State v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2018
18 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3731
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · United States v. Marion · United States v. Wilson · United States v. MacDonald · State v. Fulcher
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Unless the rule against double jeopardy prohibits further prosecution, the State may appeal from the superior court to the appellate division: (1) When there has been a decision or judgment dismissing criminal charges as to one or more counts. (2) Upon the granting of a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered or newly available evidence but only on questions of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Monroe“Ordinarily in North Carolina an appeal will only lie from a final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Benitez
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.