State v. Rowe’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2011
6 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 Texas v. Louisiana · Stassen for President Citizens Committee v. Jordan · State v. Oliver · State v. Joyner · State v. Thompson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A principal is one who either alone or in concert with others commits or accomplishes a forbidden criminal act or acts, State v. Small, 301 N.C. 407 , 272 S.E.2d 128 (1980) ; while an accessory is one who either before the fact counsels, encourages, instigates or procures another to commit a felony —State v. Sauls, 291 N.C. 253 , 230 S.E.2d 390 (1976), cert. denied, 431 U.S. 916 , 53 L. Ed. 2d 226 , 97 S. Ct. 2178 (1977)—or after a felony is committed knowingly renders assistance to the felon. State v. Potter, 221 N.C. 153 , 19 S.E.2d 257 (1942).”
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.