State v. McCann’s Empirical Analysis
1932
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2019
12 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.
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.
““But from the authorities cited above, the crime of breach of trust with fraudulent intention does not depend alone upon the act of conversion. ‘The instrumentalities’ may have been ‘set in motion within the jurisdiction of the court’ of Aiken county. 9 R. C. L., supra. Having been ‘intrusted with property in’ Aiken county, if the appellant, in that county, formed ‘the intention of fraudulently appropriating it to his own use, and, pursuant to such intention’, went ‘with it to another county (or to Georgia) where he accomplished his object, * * * his crime may be deemed committed in the place where he received the property and formed the criminal intent.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jordan“larceny by false pretenses,” and very commonly as”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Jackson
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.