103 N.C. App. 110 - Carter v. Foster’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2015
8 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 Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · Stillwell Enterprises, Inc. v. Interstate Equipment Co. · Harris v. Walden · Helms v. Rea · Putnam v. Triangle Publications, Inc.
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.
“[i]n view of long standing policy which encourages the settlement of legal disputes between the conflicting parties and the enforcement of settlement contracts, ... the trial court did not err in awarding attorney's fees....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a far reaching exception to the well established rule against attorney's fees obligations,” an attorneys’ fees provision in a settlement agreement was not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“parties may, in settling disputes, agree to the payment of attorney's fees”
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.