128 N.C. App. 484 - Gram v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2017
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 90 Ill. App. 3d 368 - Sorenson v. Fio Rito · Montford v. Grohman · 51 N.C. App. 500 - Seaman v. McQueen · Martin v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · 36 N.C. App. 653 - Murphy v. Edwards and Warren
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.
“Although the general rule in North Carolina is that attorneys’ fees and other costs associated with litigation are not recoverable in a legal malpractice action absent statutory liability, this rule does not apply to bar recovery for costs, including attorneys’ fees, incurred by a plaintiff to remedy the injury caused by the malpractice.”
2 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.