102 N.C. App. 98 - Metts v. Piver’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
March 2007
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Celotex Corporation v. Catrett H · Rorrer v. Cooke · Britt v. Allen · Clark v. Brown · 99 N.C. App. 255 - Clark v. Brown
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he general rule is that an inferior court must follow the mandate of an appellate court in a case without variation or departure.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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