115 N.C. App. 692 - Winters v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently June 2015 · most notably 119 N.C. App. 44 - Davis v. Messer (1995), Iodice v. United States (2002)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. · Stone v. Boston & Albany Railroad · Hart v. Ivey · Moore v. Crumpton · Toone v. Adams
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To establish a prima facie case of actionable negligence, a plaintiff must allege facts showing: (1) defendant owed plaintiff a duty of reasonable care; (2) defendant breached that duty; (3) defendant's breach was an actual and proximate cause of plaintiff's injury; and (4) plaintiff suffered damages as the result of defendant's breach.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a man of ordinary prudence would have known that [plaintiff's injury] or some similar injurious result was reasonably foreseeable . . . .'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order to avoid dismissal under Rule 12(b)(6), a party must state enough to satisfy the substantive elements of at least some legally recognized claim.”
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.