133 N.C. App. 116 - Martin v. Vance’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 147 N.C. App. 133 - Raspet v. Buck (2001), 134 N.C. App. 116 - Howard v. Oakwood Homes Corp. (1999)
3 federal appellate · 41 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 Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital v. Mercury Construction Corp. · Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corp. · Doctor's Associates, Inc. v. Casarotto · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Lai · Johnston County v. R. N. Rouse & Co.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.. . the agreement to arbitrate does not fail for lack of consideration. Mutual binding promises provide adequate consideration to support a contract. Where each party agrees to be bound by an arbitration agreement, there is sufficient consideration to uphold the agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where there is any doubt concerning the existence of an arbitration agreement, it should be resolved in favor of arbitration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“one who signs a paper writing is under a duty to ascertain its contents, and in the absence of a showing that he was willfully misled or misinformed ... he is held to have signed with full knowledge and assent as to what is therein contained.”
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.