1 N.C. App. 287 - Starling v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 1987
13 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 Gould Morris Electric Co. v. Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. · Finch v. Honeycutt · Smyth v. . McKissick · WACHOVIA BANK & TRUST COMPANY v. Taylor · City of Washington v. Ellsworth
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) sufficient words to raise a trust, (2) a definite subject or trust, res, and (3) an ascertained object.””
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.