96 N.C. App. 545 - State v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently December 2016
13 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 7201 · 26 U.S.C. § 7602
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Wayte v. United States · Couch v. United States · Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · State v. Bullard
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“singled out for prosecution while others similarly situated and committing the same acts [were] not ... [ and ] the discriminatory selection for [enforcement must have been] invidious and done in bad faith in that it rest[ed] upon such impermissible considerations as race, religion or the desire to prevent [their] exercise of constitutional rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“selective enforcement of a law is not itself a constitutional violation....”
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.