State v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Rose (1974), State v. Bell (1974)
72 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 State v. . Hairston
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[w]illful' is defined as 'the wrongful doing of an act without justification or excuse, or the commission of an act purposely and deliberately in violation of law.' " Ramos , 363 N.C. at 355 , 678 S.E.2d at 226 (quoting State v. Arnold , 264 N.C. 348 , 349, 141 S.E.2d 473 , 474 (1965) (per curiam) (citations omitted)). It "means something more than an intention to commit the offense.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a state of mind which is seldom capable of direct proof, but which must be inferred from the circumstances of the particular case. Id. The evidence, when viewed in the light most favorable to the State, was sufficient to allow the jury to infer that defendant put the paper towels in the toilet intending to create a serious water problem. It is not necessary for a person to know that he is breaking the law for an act to be”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.