130 N.C. App. 751 - West v. Marko’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably In Re LL (2005), 172 N.C. App. 689 - In re L.L. (2005)
40 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 Pulliam v. Smith · 126 N.C. App. 800 - Abels v. Renfro Corp. · Maximus v. LOCKHEED INFO. MGMT. SYSTEMS · 100 N.C. App. 723 - Searles v. Searles · 75 N.C. App. 260 - State Employees' Credit Union, Inc. v. Gentry
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`an order rendered in open court is not enforceable until it is”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judgment is entered when it is reduced to writing, signed by the judge, and filed with the clerk of court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n announcement of judgment in open court constitutes the rendition of judgment, not its entry.”
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.