78 N.C. App. 572 - State v. Boykin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 175 N.C. App. 250 - State v. Hanton (2006), State v. Adams (1992)
52 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 Missouri v. Hunter · Albernaz v. United States · Bell v. United States · State v. Adcock · State v. Revelle
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he `rule of lenity' forbids a court to interpret a statute so as to increase the penalty that it places on an individual when the Legislature has not clearly stated such an intention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n North Carolina, larceny remains a common law crime and is defined as “ ‘the felonious taking by trespass and carrying away by any person of the goods or personal property of another, without the latter’s consent and with the felonious intent permanently to deprive the owner of his property and to convert it to the taker’s own use.’ ” State v. Revelle, 301 N.C. 153, 163 , 270 S.E.2d 476, 482 (1980), quoting from State v. McCrary, 263 N.C. 490, 492 , 139 S.E.2d 739, 740 (1965). Our Supreme Court has held that “G.S. 14-72 relates solely to punishment for the separate crime of larceny,” State v. Brown, 266 N.C. 55, 63 , 145 S.E.2d 297, 303 (1965), and this Court has concluded that “[t]he statutory provision upgrading misdemeanor larceny to felony larceny does not change the nature of the crime; the elements of proof remain the same.” State v. Smith, 66 N.C. App. 570, 576 , 312 S.E.2d 222, 226 , disc. rev. denied, 310 N.C. 747 , 315 S.E.2d 708 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the purpose of G.S. 14-72 is to establish levels of punishment for larceny based on the value of the goods stolen, the nature of the goods stolen or the method by which stolen, not to create new offenses. Nothing in the statutory language suggests that to charge a person with a separate offense for each firearm stolen in a single criminal incident was intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Adams
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.