115 N.C. App. 528 - McArdle Corp. v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2011
10 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 Calloway v. Ford Motor Company · A-S-P Associates v. City of Raleigh · Matter of Foreclosure of Trust by Goforth · 35 N.C. App. 290 - Capps v. City of Raleigh · 109 N.C. App. 336 - Munie v. Tangle Oaks Corp.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is not the function of the trial court to make findings of fact and conclusions of law on a motion for summary judgment”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re JNS
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.