120 N.C. App. 398 - Walters v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2017
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 Plyler v. Doe · Zablocki v. Redhail · Bernal v. Fainter · Texfi Industries, Inc. v. City of Fayetteville · Memphis Bank & Trust Co. v. Garner
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is only necessary to show that the classification created by the statute bears a rational relationship to or furthers some legitimate state interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Compensation shall not be payable for disability or death due to silicosis and/or asbestosis unless the employee shall have been exposed to the inhalation of dust of silica or silicates or asbestos dust in employment for a period of not less than two years in this State, provided no part of such period of two years shall have been more than 10 years prior to the last exposure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prevent[ ] [ ] forum shopping and [to] protect[ ] against claims for which the employer is not responsible.”
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.