State v. . Eason’s Empirical Analysis
1874
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently July 1979
3 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.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule here is, that where the indictment contains charges that are actually distinct, and grow out of different transactions, in such cases the Court will compel the State to elect, or will quash. But where it appears by the indictment . . . that the charges in the several counts relate to the same transaction, varied and modified merely to meet the probable proofs, the Court cannot either quash or compel an election.” State v. Eason, 70 N.C. 88, 91-92 (1874).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McGill
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.