State v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions

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

1. “simply describing the property obtained as 'money' ... is insufficient to allege the crime of obtaining property by false pretenses.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Mostafavi · 253 N.C. App. 803 - State v. Mostafavi

2. “any money, goods, ..., services ..., or other thing of value”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Mostafavi · 253 N.C. App. 803 - State v. Mostafavi

3. “a plain and concise factual statement in each count which, without allegations of an evidentiary nature, asserts facts supporting every element of a criminal offense and the defendant's commission thereof with sufficient precision clearly to apprise the defendant or defendants of the conduct which is the subject of the accusation.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 262 N.C. App. 290 - State v. Booker · State v. Mostafavi