51 N.C. App. 442 - State v. Costigan’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2019
12 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. Goines · State v. Murphy · State v. Smith · 9 N.C. App. 688 - State v. Kendrick · 38 N.C. App. 75 - State v. Hill
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An essential element of the crime [of breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny] is the specific intent to steal existing at the time of the breaking or entering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Intent is a mental attitude and can seldom be proved by direct evidence and is most often proved by circumstances from which it can be inferred.”
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.