108 N.C. App. 135 - Abels v. Renfro Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 79 N.C. App. 483 - Hogan v. Forsyth Country Club Co. · Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A. · Worthington v. Bynum · HOGAH v. Forsyth Country Club Co. · Stevenson v. City of Durham
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) No employer may discharge or demote any employee because the employee has instituted or caused to be instituted, in good faith, any proceeding under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]f G.S. 97-6.1 were limited only to retaliatory acts which occurred after the employee filed his claim, an employer could easily avoid the statute by firing the injured employee before he filed.”
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.