56 N.C. App. 55 - State v. Gamble’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2017
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 Matter of Banks · Watson Industries, Inc. v. Shaw · State v. Fenner · State v. Lee · State v. Ross
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a constructed edifice designed to stand more or less permanently, covering a space of land, usu. [sic] covered by a roof and more or less completely enclosed by walls, and serving as a dwelling, storehouse, factory, shelter for animals, or other useful structure — distinguished from structures not designed for occupancy (as fences or monuments) .... Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1968 ed.) 292. The ‘particular designations’ in the G.S. 14-54(c) definition of ‘building,’ ‘dwelling, dwelling house, uninhabited house, building under construction, building within the curtilage of a dwelling house,’ indicate that the legislature intended the statute to proscribe breaking or entering into that which conforms to the common definition. The statutes predating the present G.S. 14-54 also support this construction of its coverage, restricting the statute to that which has — or is intended to have — one or more walls and a roof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Avery“(a) Any person who breaks or enters any building with intent to commit any felony or larceny therein shall be punished as a Class H felon. (b) Any person who wrongfully breaks or enters any building is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable under G.S. 14-3(a). (c) As used in this section, “building” shall be construed to include any dwelling, dwelling house, uninhabited house, building under construction, building within the curtilage of a dwelling house, and any other structure designed to house or secure within it any activity or property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Avery
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.