139 N.C. App. 53 - McKillop v. Onslow County’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2025
16 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 Brown v. United States · New Yorker Magazine, Inc. v. Gerosa · Koufman v. Koufman · National Theatres Corp. v. Bertha Building Corp. · Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company
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.
“[U]nder [ Cantwell v. Cantwell, 109 N.C.App. 395 , 427 S.E.2d 129 (1993) ], we hold that [the] plaintiff must choose between her right not to incriminate herself in a pending criminal trial and her claim that she cannot be held in civil contempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if a plaintiff seeks affirmative relief or a defendant pleads an affirmative defense [,] he should not have it within his power to silence his own adverse testimony when such testimony is relevant to the cause of action or the defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The finder of fact in a civil cause may use a witness' invocation of his Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination to infer that his truthful testimony would have been unfavorable to him.”
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.