State Supreme Court / N.C.

State v. . Harris

Decided February 2, 1940. Aaron A. F. Seawell wrote the opinion for the court.

6 S.E.2d 854 · Cited 126 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations · 262 U.S. 522
Meyer v. Nebraska · 262 U.S. 390
Yick Wo v. Hopkins · 118 U.S. 356
Nebbia v. New York · 291 U.S. 502
J. W. Hampton, Jr., & Co. v. United States · 276 U.S. 394
Sterling v. Constantin · 287 U.S. 378
McCray v. United States · 195 U.S. 27
Dorchy v. Kansas · 264 U.S. 286
People Ex Rel. Durham Realty Corp. v. La Fetra · 130 N.E. 601
Ohio v. Helvering · 292 U.S. 360
Otis v. Parker · 187 U.S. 606
Whitman v. Oxford National Bank · 176 U.S. 559
Louisville & Nashville Railroad v. Kentucky · 161 U.S. 677
Smith v. Texas · 233 U.S. 630
Wells v. Housing Authority of the City of Wilmington · 197 S.E. 693
People v. Monterey Fish Products Co. · 234 P. 398
Springfield Gas & Electric Co. v. City of Springfield · 257 U.S. 66
In Re Applicants for License · 55 S.E. 635
Miami Laundry Co. v. Florida Dry Cleaning & Laundry Board · 183 So. 759
Durham Provision Co. v. Daves · 128 S.E. 593
Story v. Richardson · 198 P. 1057
Woolf v. Fuller · 174 A. 193
Frazer v. Shelton · 150 N.E. 696
Dasch v. Jackson · 183 A. 534
Webster v. Archer · 4 A.2d 434

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Whaley v. Lenoir County · 168 S.E.2d 411
Chapdelaine v. Tennessee State Board of Examiners for Land Surveyors · 543 S.W.2d 60
State v. . Ballance · 51 S.E.2d 731
In Re Willis · 215 S.E.2d 771
King v. Town of Chapel Hill · 367 N.C. 400
Wal-Mart Stores East, Inc. v. Hinton · 676 S.E.2d 634
Farlow v. North Carolina State Board of Chiropractic Examiners · 332 S.E.2d 696
Bowens v. BD. OF LAW EXAMINERS, ETC. · 291 S.E.2d 170
State v. Ballance · 229 N.C. 764
In Re Certificate of Need for Aston Park Hospital, Inc. · 193 S.E.2d 729
Allred v. Graves · 134 S.E.2d 186
State Ex Rel. Lanier v. Vines · 164 S.E.2d 161
Guthrie v. Taylor · 185 S.E.2d 193
Nash v. . Tarboro · 42 S.E.2d 209
Hamlet Hospital v. Joint Committee on Standardization · 68 S.E.2d 862
Buehman v. Bechtel · 114 P.2d 227
State v. Polakow's Realty Experts, Inc. · 10 So. 2d 461

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