118 N.C. App. 151 - Holbrook v. Henley’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2023
12 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. · Beanblossom v. Thomas · Brunson v. Gainey · Bolick v. SUNBIRD AIRLINES INC. · 109 N.C. App. 94 - Keith v. Polier
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] person who, through no negligence of his own, is suddenly and unexpectedly confronted with imminent danger ... is not required to use the same judgment that would be required if there was more time to make a decision .... ... [A] person’s conduct which might otherwise be negligent in and of itself would be — would not be negligent if it results from a sudden emergency that is not of that person’s own making.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although a party cannot by his own negligent conduct permit an emergency to arise and then excuse himself for his actions or omissions on the ground that he was called to act in an emergency,”
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.