137 N.C. App. 461 - Long v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 172 N.C. App. 595 - Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. Bourlon (2005), 162 N.C. App. 241 - Overton v. Purvis (2004)
48 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 State v. Hennis · United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall · Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · Abels v. Renfro Corp. · Harris v. Duke Power 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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n unpublished opinion establishes no precedent and is not binding authority.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Moreover, if there is conflicting testimony that permits different inferences, one of which is favorable to the non-moving party, a directed verdict in favor of the party with the burden of proof is improper.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“manifestly unsupported by reason or ... so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision.”
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.