State v. Downing’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 197 N.C. App. 129 - State v. Gayton-Barbosa (2009), 162 N.C. App. 719 - State v. Phillips (2004)
34 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. Eppley · State v. Smith · State v. Greene · State v. . Law · State v. Stinson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the evidence at trial must establish that the person named in the indictment is either the owner, the bailee, or has an otherwise special interest in the property stolen.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`To be sufficient, an indictment for larceny must allege the owner or person in lawful possession of the stolen property.'”
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.