112 N.C. App. 672 - Smith v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 131 N.C. App. 168 - Norman Owen Trucking, Inc. v. Morkoski (1998), 134 N.C. App. 502 - Leftwich v. Gaines (1999)
29 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 State v. Wilkerson · Quick v. Quick · Johnson v. Ruark Obstetrics & Gynecology Associates, P.A. · Hajmm Co. v. House of Raeford Farms, Inc. · Braswell v. Braswell
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Plaintiff is barred from recovering for those losses which could have been prevented through the plaintiff's reasonable efforts.”
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.