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← 240 N.C. 365 - State v. Fraylon

State v. Fraylon’s Empirical Analysis

1954

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
November 2008
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2008

3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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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. . Johnson · Foster v. . Hyman · State v. . Stephenson · State v. . Whitener · State v. . Crosset

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The word “willfully” as used in this statute means something more than an intention to commit the offense. It implies committing the offense purposely and designedly in violation of law. S. v. Whitener, 93 N.C., 590 ; Foster v. Hyman, 197 N.C., 189 , 148 S.E., 36 . The word “knowingly” as so used, means that defendant knew what he was about to do, and, with such knowledge, proceeded to do the act charged. These words combined in the phrase “willfully and knowingly” in reference to violation of the statute, mean intentionally and consciously. As used in the present indictment it means that defendant for purpose of collecting insurance intentionally made a false claim as to the value of the tobacco burned, with knowledge and conscious of the fact that the claim was false and fraudulent.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[w]here the facts are available to all parties, the question as to the value of a damaged building at the time of a fire resolves itself largely into a matter of opinion by qualified witnesses. “Value is necessarily a matter of judgment, and, furthermore, a matter of judgment in which each person is prone to err in overestimating his own. Of course, overvaluation is an evidence of fraud, but it does not amount to fraud where it expresses the bona fide opinion of the insured.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[n]either does one `willfully and knowingly' violate a statute when he does that which he believes he has a bona fide right to do.”
    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.