25 N.C. App. 453 - State v. Lilly’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

10 state decisions

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

1. “[I]t is not always necessary that the stolen property should have been actually in the hands or on the person of the accused, it being sufficient if the property was under his exclusive personal control. ... It may be of things elsewhere deposited, but under the control of a party. It may be in a storeroom or barn when the party has the key. In short, it may be in any place where it is manifest it must have been put by the act of the party or his undoubted concurrence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 149 N.C. App. 235 - State v. Osborne · 172 N.C. App. 143 - State v. Phillips

2. “the trial judge imposed a sentence of three years imprisonment. He had not, however, submitted the felonious larceny charge to the jury on the theory that the personal property had a value of more than $200. We held that since the jury acquitted the defendant of felonious breaking and there was no instruction regarding the value of the goods taken, the trial court erred in treating the verdict as a conviction of felonious larceny. We vacated the sentence and remanded the case for judgment”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Curry