79 N.C. App. 205 - State v. Felts’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2014
12 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 In Re Inquiry Concerning Judge Nowell · State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Edmisten · State v. Wiggins · National Labor Relations Board v. Crawford Manufacturing Co. · HORLOCK v. OGLESBY Et Ux.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In construing a statute, its “words are to be given their plain and ordinary meaning unless the context, or the history of the statute, requires otherwise.” State v. Wiggins, 272 N.C. 147, 153 , 158 S.E. 2d 37, 42 (1967), cert. denied, 390 U.S. 1028 , 20 L.Ed. 2d 285 , 88 S.Ct. 1418 (1968). When a statute’s language is clear and unambiguous, it must be given effect, and its clear meaning may not be evaded by the courts under the guise of construction. State ex rel Utilities Commission v. Edmisten, 291 N.C. 451, 465 , 232 S.E. 2d 184, 192 (1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to advise the prosecutors, not to completely replace them, or act instead of them, unless there is an express statutory provision authorizing the Attorney General to initiate a particular action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]o consult with and advise the prosecutors, when requested by them, in all matters pertaining to the duties of their office.”
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.