111 N.C. App. 244 - Cagle v. Teachy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 119 N.C. App. 730 - North Carolina Department of Transportation v. Page (1995), 131 N.C. App. 242 - First Atlantic Management, Corp. v. Dunlea Realty, Co. (1998)
52 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 Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Bernick v. Jurden · Tridyn Industries, Inc. v. American Mutual Insurance · 60 N.C. App. 331 - Blackwelder v. State Department of Human Resources · 70 N.C. App. 627 - Estrada v. Jaques
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A final judgment is one which disposes of the cause as to all the parties, leaving nothing to be determined between them in the trial court. An interlocutory order, on the other hand, is one made during the pendency of an action which does not dispose of the case, but leaves it for further action by the trial court in order to settle and determine the entire controversy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] final judgment is one which disposes of the cause as to all parties, leaving nothing to be judicially determined between them in the trial court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“) not immediately appealable, even if the trial court has attempted to certify it for appeal under Rule 54(b).”
3 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.