134 N.C. App. 369 - Key v. Burchette’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Collingwood v. GEN. ELEC. R. EST. EQUIT. · King v. Grindstaff · 116 N.C. App. 663 - Davis v. Town of Southern Pines · North Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance v. Stox · Enns v. Zayre Corp.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The issues to be concluded must be the same as those involved in the prior action; (2) in the prior action, the issues must have been raised and actually litigated; (3) the issue must have been material and relevant to the disposition of the prior action; and (4) the determination made of those issues in the prior action must have been necessary and essential to the resulting judgment. ””
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.