137 N.C. App. 90 - State v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
22
cited by 22 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Collins · United States v. Jackson · State v. Jolly · State v. . Whiteside · 71 N.C. App. 521 - State v. Baize
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[d]irect proof of conspiracy is rarely available, so the crime must generally be proved by circumstantial evidence.” State v. Burmeister, 131 N.C. App. 190, 199 , 506 S.E.2d 278, 283 (1998). A conspiracy “may be, and generally is, established by a number of indefinite acts, each of which, standing alone, might have little weight, but, taken collectively, they point unerringly to the existence of a conspiracy.” State v. Whiteside, 204 N.C. 710, 712 , 169 S.E.2d 711 , 712 (1933).”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'A criminal conspiracy is an agreement, express or implied, between two or more persons to do an unlawful act or to do a lawful act by unlawful means.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“at an address that consisted of uninhabited apartments still under construction. When an officer posing as a UPS delivery person drove to the address written on the package, the defendant, who had been sitting with another man in a burgundy car, got out, stood near the building, and stared at him but did not approach. Id. When the officer returned to the UPS truck and drove out of the apartment complex, the defendant, driving the burgundy car with his passenger, followed him. When the officer stopped to feign delivery of another package, the passenger of the burgundy car”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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