14 N.C. App. 183 - Walton v. Meir’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1990
15 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 Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · 9 N.C. App. 635 - Pridgen v. Hughes · Speight v. . Anderson · Mosteller v. Southern Railway Co. · Smith v. Moore
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all other roads or streets or portions of roads or streets whatsoever outside of the boundaries of any incorporated city or town in the State which serve a public use and as a means of ingress or egress for one or more families, regardless of whether the same have been a portion of any State or county road system, are hereby declared to be neighborhood public roads. . . .”
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.