111 N.C. App. 448 - Wagoner v. Hiatt’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2006
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Campbell v. First Baptist Church of Durham · Harrell v. Scheidt · State v. North Carolina Reinsurance Facility · State Ex Rel. Hunt v. NC REINSURANCE FAC. · Justice v. Scheidt
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the task of the courts is to ensure that the purpose of the Legislature, the legislative intent, is accomplished. The best indicia of that legislative purpose are the language of the act and what the act seeks to accomplish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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