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← 319 N.C. 429 - State v. Griffin

State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
February 2010
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably State v. Rasor (1987), State v. Harris (1988)

1 federal appellate · 37 state decisions

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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 Pell v. Procunier · State v. Ramey · State v. DeLeonardo · State v. Johnson · State v. Rinck

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(a) A person who is under the age of 16 years is guilty of taking indecent liberties with children if the person either: (1) Willfully takes or attempts to take any immoral, improper, or indecent liberties with any child of either sex who is at least three years younger than the defendant for the purpose of arousing or gratifying sexual desire.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re TCS · In re T.C.S.
  2. “`[I]ntent is an attitude or emotion of the mind and is seldom, if ever, susceptible of proof by direct evidence[;] it must ordinarily be proven by circumstantial evidence, i.e., by facts and circumstances from which it may be inferred.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 167 N.C. App. 654 - SHAFMAN v. DONALD LARSON, INC.
  3. “`substantial evidence of each element of the charged offenses sufficient to convince a rational trier of fact beyond a reasonable doubt of defendant's guilt.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. In Re TCS

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.