13 N.C. App. 347 - Hicks v. Hicks’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1998
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 Godwin v. Wachovia Bank & Trust Company · Pickelsimer Ex Rel. Gash v. Pickelsimer · Olive v. Biggs · Mansour v. Rabil · McCraw v. Llewellyn
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For recovery of compensation upon implied contract or quantum meruit for services rendered, the cause of action accrues according to circumstances as follows: (a) For indefinite and continuous service, without any definite arrangement as to time for compensation, payment may be required [as the services are rendered]. ‘The implied promise is to pay for services as they are rendered, and payment may be required whenever any are rendered; and thus the statute is silently and steadily excluding so much as are beyond the prescribed limitation.’ . . .” (citations omitted) (emphasis original).”
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.