130 N.C. App. 692 - State v. Blackmon’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably State v. Lucas (2001), 184 N.C. App. 553 - State v. Mueller (2007)
50 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 Grayned v. City of Rockford · Grayned v. City of Rockford · State v. Easterling · State v. Greer · State v. Adcock
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In general, an indictment couched in the language of the statute is sufficient to charge the statutory offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) A person is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if, being 16 years of age or more and at least five years older than the child in question, he either: (1) Willfully takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with any child of either sex under the age of 16 years for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire; or (2) Willfully commits or attempts to commit any lewd or lascivious act upon or with the body or any part or member of the body of any child of either sex under the age of 16 years.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Now, ladies and gentleman, the crime of indecent liberties is a single offense, which may be proved by evidence of the commission of any one or a number of acts. And the requirement of. . . unanimity ... is met even if some jurors find that one type of.sexual conduct occurred and others find that another has transpired. In these cases, the defendant has been charged with five separate counts of taking indecent liberties with a child. While you need not agree, each agree to a specific act or attempt to act, you must agree unanimously that at least five distinct and separate acts or attempts occurred in order to convict the defendant of all five counts. Not only that, but as to each count, you must unanimously agree that the specific act or attempt to act occurred during the time period set forth in the particular charge. Let me see if I can explain that to you. And in doing so, I’m just going to use the file numbers for your reference. And I guess this is as good a place as any to tell you, there are going to be five verdict sheets that are going to be sent back to you eventually, and these are set forth: The State of North Carolina vs. Joel Allen Comeaux. And they’re going to have Buncombe County at the top, and there’s going to be a file number up in the right-hand comer. And that’s how you will delineate the difference in them. They’re going to be identical except for that file number in the upper right-hand comer. And it just simply says: We, the jury, unanimously return a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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