128 N.C. App. 205 - Williams v. Holsclaw’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Polaroid Corp. v. Offerman (1998), 764 So. 2d 373 - City of Jackson v. Perry (2000)
25 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 Smith v. State · Meyer v. Walls · 112 N.C. App. 604 - Taylor v. Ashburn · STATE EX REL. UTILITIES COM'N v. Lumbee River EMC · 99 N.C. App. 693 - Hare v. Butler
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to provide some financial recompense to innocent persons who receive bodily injury ... due to the negligence of uninsured motorists or those unidentified drivers who leave the scene of an accident, i.e. , those who cannot be made to respond to damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]arring compensation to injured motorists based solely on the fortuity of being [hit] by a `municipal' vehicle is contrary to the remedial purposes of the UM statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should be liberally construed to accomplish the beneficial purpose intended by the General Assembly.”
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.