135 N.C. App. 763 - Tew v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · State v. Hosey · 67 N.C. App. 1 - Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Edwards · State v. Henry · Ward v. Durham Life Insurance 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen an attorney enters into a contract for a fixed fee [ (either a set hourly rate or a set total fee) ] after the attorney’s representation of the client has commenced, the attorney bears the burden of proving, in an action to recover fees under the contract, that the fees were “fair and reasonable.” This is so because there is a presumption of undue influence when an attorney enters into a fee contract with a client during representation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he trial court may not consider an unverified pleading when ruling on a motion for summary 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.