State v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2003
16 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 Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · State v. Weaver · State v. Cronin · State v. Bracey · State v. Howley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant may obtain money or property by falsely representing his own identity (which defendant’s cohorts effectively did as purported employees of Budget Merchandise and Financing Company) or he may do so by creating the identity of a “business” calculated to engender confidence in the inherent worth of the check.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . the crime of obtaining property by false pretenses pursuant to G.S. 14-100 should be defined as follows: (1) a false representation of a subsisting fact or a future fulfillment or event, (2) which is calculated and intended to deceive, (3) which does in fact deceive, and (4) by which one person obtains or attempts to obtain value from another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bresse
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.