47 N.C. App. 171 - State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably State v. Smith (1988), 84 N.C. App. 517 - State v. Tozzi (1987)
34 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. Duncan · State v. Braswell · 40 N.C. App. 545 - State v. Baines · 23 N.C. App. 63 - State v. Byrd
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Probation is an act of grace by the State to one convicted of a crime.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“All that is required . . . is that the evidence be such as to reasonably satisfy thejudge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation or that the defendant has violated without lawful excuse a valid condition upon which the sentence was suspended.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“All that is required is that the evidence be sufficient to reasonably satisfy the judge in the exercise of his sound discretion that the defendant has willfully violated a valid condition of probation.”
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.