102 N.C. App. 802 - Martin v. Sheffer’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Tillman v. Commercial Credit Loans, Inc. (2008), 105 N.C. App. 14 - Rite Color Chemical Co., Inc. v. VELVET TEXTILE CO. INC. (1992)
2 district · 25 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 Evans v. Everett · 27 N.C. App. 689 - Billings v. Joseph Harris Co., Inc. · Billings v. Joseph Harris Co., Inc. · 63 N.C. App. 292 - Byrd Motor Lines, Inc. v. Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. · 10 N.C. App. 435 - Evans v. Everett
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court has previously held that “[t]o find unconscionability there must be an absence of meaningful choice on part of one of the parties [procedural unconscionability] together with contract terms which are unreasonably favorable to the other [substantive unconscionability]. ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not argue that he lacked meaningful choice in negotiating the terms of the contract”
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.