State v. Forney’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. McCollum (1993), State v. Parker (2001)
40 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 Rhode Island v. Innis · First Investment Annuity Co. of America v. Miller · State v. Oliver · State v. Monk · State v. Britt
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'To act in concert means to act together, in harmony or in conjunction one with another pursuant to a common plan or purpose.' " State v. Ikard , 71 N.C. App. 283 , 285, 321 S.E.2d 535 , 536-37 (1984) (quoting State v. Joyner, 297 N.C. 349 , 356, 255 S.E.2d 390 , 395 (1979) ). "While it is true that it is not necessary for a defendant to do any particular act constituting a part of the crime in order to be convicted of that crime under the principle of acting in concert, so long as he is present at the scene, it is nevertheless necessary that there be sufficient evidence to show he is acting together with another or others pursuant to a common plan or purpose to commit the crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Massey
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.