State v. Agnew’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Powell (1980), 40 N.C. App. 72 - State v. Smith (1979)
90 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. Greene · State v. Bell · State v. McNeil · State v. Roseman · State v. Evans
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for nonsuit of a charge of obtaining property by false pretense must be denied if there is evidence which, if believed, would establish or from which the jury could reasonably infer that the defendant (1) obtained value from another without compensation, (2) by a false representation . . . , (3) which was calculated and intended to decieve and (4) did in fact deceive.” State v. Agnew, 294 N.C. 382, 387-88 , 241 S.E. 2d 684, 688 (1978), cert. denied,-U.S.-, 58 L.Ed. 2d 124 , 99 S.Ct. 107 (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Louchheim“The words “willfully” and “corruption”, as they relate to misapplication of funds under G.S. 14-92, have been defined as “[D]one with an unlawful intent,” and “The act of an official or fiduciary person who unlawfully and wrongfully uses his station or character to procure, some benefit for himself or for another person, contrary to duty and the rights of others.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the element of fraudulent intent [that is] necessary to sustain an embezzlement conviction may be established by evidence of facts and circumstances from which it reasonably may be inferred, as well as by direct evidence.”
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.