124 N.C. App. 521 - Bartlett v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 131 N.C. App. 242 - First Atlantic Management, Corp. v. Dunlea Realty, Co. (1998), 139 N.C. App. 360 - Eastover Ridge, L.L.C v. Metric Constructors, Inc. (2000)
45 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 Pembee Mfg. Corp. v. Cape Fear Const. Co., Inc. · Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · 119 N.C. App. 730 - North Carolina Department of Transportation v. Page · Williams v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · 113 N.C. App. 19 - Liggett Group, Inc. v. Sunas
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) . . . the order is final as to some but not all of the claims or parties and the trial court certifies there is no just reason to delay the appeal pursuant to N.C.R. Civ. P. 54(b) or (2) . . . `the trial court's decision deprives the appellant of a substantial right which would be lost absent immediate review.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“by proving that an essential element of the opposing party's claims is nonexistent, or by showing through discovery that the opposing party cannot produce evidence to support an essential element of his claim or cannot surmount an affirmative defense which would bar the claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Summary judgment is rarely appropriate on claims of contributory negligence. Summary judgment should not be allowed on a contributory negligence claim unless the only conclusion that can be reached from the evidence is that plaintiff was contributorily negligent.”
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.