108 N.C. App. 648 - State v. McClees’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably United States v. Izaguirre-Flores (2005), United States v. Pierce (2002)
30 federal appellate · 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
Relies on State v. Smith · State v. Powell · State v. Etheridge · State v. Hartness · State v. Banks
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The evil the legislature sought to prevent in this context was the defendant's performance of any immoral, improper, or indecent act in the presence of a child 'for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.’ ”); Every, 578 S.E.2d at 648 (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Indecent liberties' are defined as 'such liberties as the common sense of society would regard as indecent and improper.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the defendant was at least 16 years of age, and more than five years older than the victim, (2) the victim was under 16 years of age at the time the alleged act or attempted act occurred, and (3) the defendant willfully took or attempted to take an immoral, improper, or indecent liberty with the victim for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.”
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.