122 N.C. App. 645 - Baity v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2023
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 88 N.C. App. 404 - Seafare Corp. v. Trenor Corp. · Holland v. Southern Public Utilities Co. · 100 N.C. App. 584 - Cox v. Robert C. Rhein Interest, Inc. · 122 N.C. App. 242 - Ryals v. Hall-Lane Moving & Storage Co. · 43 N.C. App. 278 - Ryder v. Benfield
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he weight of both authority and reason is to the effect that any amount paid by anybody, whether they be joint tort-feasors or otherwise, for and on account of any injury or damage should be held for a credit on the total recovery in any action for the same injury or damage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the common law principle that a plaintiff should not be permitted a double recovery for a single injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hairston v. Harward
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.