123 N.C. App. 643 - Walker Frames v. Shively’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2011
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 Universidad Central Del Caribe, Inc. v. Liaison Committee on Medical Education · Glatz v. Glatz · 98 N.C. App. 395 - Fields v. Irvin H. Whitehouse & Sons Co. · Johnson v. Hutchens · Davis Bros. v. Wallace
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.
“[a] Rule 41(a) dismissal strips the trial court of authority to enter further orders in the case, except as provided by Rule 41(d)[,] which authorizes the court to enter specific orders apportioning and taxing costs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here [was] nothing the [plaintiff could] do to fan the ashes of that action into life[,] and the court [had] no role to play.”
3 later decisions 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.