127 N.C. App. 649 - Gordon v. Garner’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 152 N.C. App. 15 - Guthrie v. Conroy (2002), 337 F. Supp. 2d 709 - Sheaffer v. County of Chatham (2004)
20 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 Hayes v. . Elon College · Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. · Lockwood v. McCaskill · Bolkhir v. North Carolina State University · Youngblood v. N. State Ford Truck Sales
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he person employed (a) is engaged in an independent business, calling or occupation; (b) is to have the independent use of his special skill, knowledge, or training in the execution of the work; (c) is doing a specified piece of work at a fixed price or for a lump sum or upon a quantitative basis; (d) is not subject to discharge because he adopts one method of doing the work rather than another; (e) is not in the regular employ of the other contracting party; (f) is free to use such assistants as he may think proper; (g) has full control over such assistants; and (h) selects his own time.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[i]norder to establish actionable negligence, a plaintiff must show that: (1) defendant failed to exercise due care in the performance of some legal duty owed to plaintiff under the circumstances; and (2) the negligen[t] breach of such duty was the proximate cause of the injury.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“retained the right of control or superintendence over the contractor or employee as to details.”
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.