State v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably State v. Harris (1976), State v. Abernathy (1978)
60 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Wright · State v. Blackmon · State v. Bailey · State v. Hooker
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . For a burning to be “wilful and malicious” in the law of arson it must simply be done “voluntarily and without excuse or justification and without any bona fide claim of right. An intent or animus against either the property itself or its owner is not an element of the offense” of common law arson.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We do not decide whether the precise use of the term made here by the able trial judge constituted legal error. It might be argued that he defined “fraudulent purpose” to be in this case burning of the dwelling for the purpose of intimidating its occupant, a State’s witness. This act would also be a wilful and malicious burning. Since, the argument goes, two or more things equal to the same thing are equal to each other the charge is saved from error. Be that as it may, and without considering all the factual circumstances which may be embraced by the term “fraudulent purpose,” we believe that the concept has no place in a common law arson case. The better practice is to maintain a clear distinction between this ancient crime and burning for a fraudulent purpose as defined by G.S. 14-65.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n “accomplice” is a person who knowingly, voluntarily, and with common intent with the principal offender unites with him in the commission of the crime charged, either as a principal, as an aider or abettor, or as an accessory before the fact. The generally accepted test as to whether a witness is an “accomplice” is whether he himself could have been convicted for the offense charged, either as a principal, or as an aider and abettor, or as an accessory before the fact, and if so, such a witness is an accomplice within the rules relating to accomplice testimony.”
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.