State v. Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably State v. Gibbs (1993), State v. Bindyke (1975)
43 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 Matheny v. Central Motor Lines, Inc. · State v. . Reddick · State v. Bennett · State v. Scarborough · State v. Tilley
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is well settled in this jurisdiction that although the jury should receive and act upon such testimony with caution, the unsupported testimony of an accomplice is sufficient to sustain a conviction if it satisfies the jury beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the accused.’ State v. Tilley, 239 N.C. 245, 249 , 79 S.E. 2d 473, 476 , and cases cited; State v. Saunders, 245 N.C. 338, 342 , 95 S.E. 2d 876, 879 ; State v. Terrell, 256 N.C. 232, 236 , 123 S.E. 2d 469, 472 .” Id. at 132.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Todd · State v. Wood
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.