85 N.C. App. 42 - Twitty v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2011
1 federal appellate · 4 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 Long v. City of Charlotte · Humphries v. City of Jacksonville · 32 N.C. App. 154 - Montgomery v. Montgomery · Pendergrast v. Aiken · Morgan v. High Penn Oil Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public nuisance affects the local community generally and its maintenance constitutes an offense against the State. To constitute a public nuisance, the condition of things must be such as injuriously affects the community at large_ Whatever tends to endanger life, or generate disease, and affect the health of the community ... is generally, at common law, a public nuisance, and a crime.”
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.