103 N.C. App. 162 - Dollar v. Tapp’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2018
12 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 Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners of Town of Nags Head · 74 N.C. App. 256 - Oxford Plastics v. Goodson · 94 N.C. App. 36 - Anderson Trucking Service, Inc. v. Key Way Transport, Inc. · 76 N.C. App. 119 - Chaparral Supply v. Bell · 46 N.C. App. 578 - Laroque v. Laroque
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.
“serves as a grand reservoir of equitable power by which a court may grant relief from a judgment whenever extraordinary circumstances exist and there is a showing that justice demands it.”
2 later decisions 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.