66 N.C. App. 570 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 78 N.C. App. 572 - State v. Boykin (1985), 179 W. Va. 619 - State v. Johnson (1988)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Blockburger v. United States · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · State v. Fulcher · State v. Williams · State v. Oliver
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) From the person; (2) Committed pursuant to a violation of G.S. 14-51, 14-53, 14-54 or 14-57; (3) Of any explosive or incendiary device or substance; (4) Of any firearm; or (5) Of any record or paper in custody of the N.C. Archives.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the offenses of breaking or entering and larceny, which require proof of different elements, are clearly separate and distinct crimes, neither one a lesser included offense of the other.”
1 later decision 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.