12 N.C. App. 399 - Britt v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2015
8 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 11 N.C. App. 483 - Ketner v. Rouzer · Lane v. Faust
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 judgment was entered on the court's own motion. Not only did defendants fail to move for summary judgment but plaintiffs were not given at least 10 days' notice before the time fixed for the hearing as required by Rule 56(c).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since the procedure prescribed by Rule 56 was not followed, the judgment appealed from is erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although not designated as such, the judgment appealed from amounted to a summary judgment.”
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.