139 N.C. App. 588 - Mercier v. Daniels’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 79 N.C. App. 483 - Hogan v. Forsyth Country Club Co. · Waddle v. Sparks · HOGAH v. Forsyth Country Club Co. · 93 N.C. App. 431 - Brown v. Burlington Industries, Inc. · Ellis v. Williams
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the enumeration of findings of fact . . . is technically unnecessary and generally inadvisable in summary judgment cases, [and] . . . these findings of fact can be disregarded on appeal.”
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.