State of North Carolina v. Lemans L. Ivory’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Jamison v. Wiley (1994), Plyler v. Moore (1997)
3 federal appellate · 5 district ·
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 Imbler v. Pachtman · American Fire & Casualty Co. v. Finn · Newman-Green, Inc. v. Alfonzo-Larrain · Willingham v. Morgan · Grubbs v. General Electric Credit Corp.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[U]nder our federal system, it goes without saying that preventing and dealing with crime is much more the business of the States than it is of the Federal Government. Because the regulation of crime is preeminently a matter for the States, we have identified a strong judicial policy against federal interference with state criminal proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Like the Postal Service workers in Mesa , Ivory has not alleged a defense of federal immunity. Ivory was subject to local traffic laws concerning rights of way, speed limits and the like, ... and he has not alleged anything in the conduct of his federal responsibilities which justified his violation of these laws.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the jurisdictional issue is whether the defendant has 'present[ed] facts in the record taken as a whole that would support an immunity defense,' whether or not he earlier had sufficiently averred a colorable defense as the basis for removal under Mesa's removal petition pleading requirement.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.