106 N.C. App. 56 - Dunn v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Dunn v. Pate (1993), 122 N.C. App. 150 - Mahoney v. Ronnie's Road Service, Indian Head Industries, Inc. (1996)
28 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 North Carolina National Bank v. Virginia Carolina Builders · Cannon v. Miller · Rabon v. Rowan Memorial Hospital Incorporated · Whitley v. Arenson · Kearney v. . Vann
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Moreover, this Court has no authority to overrule decisions of our Supreme Court and we have the responsibility to follow those decisions `until otherwise ordered by . . . [our] Supreme Court.'”
5 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.