14 N.C. App. 296 - Baxter v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Baxter v. Jones (1972), 133 N.C. App. 415 - Tyson v. Henry (1999)
17 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 Gould Morris Electric Co. v. Atlantic Fire Insurance Co. · Bowen v. Darden · Teachey v. . Gurley · DeBruhl v. State Highway & Public Works Commission · Finch v. Honeycutt
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The failure of a defendant who has been duly served to appear and answer a complaint seeking a declaratory judgment constitutes an admission of every material fact pleaded which is essential to the judgment sought, but the court must, nevertheless, proceed to construe such .facts or instruments set out in the complaint and enter judgment thereon; the default caused by the defendant’s failure to appear and answer does not entitle the plaintiff to a judgment based on the pleader’s conclusions. The default admits only the allegations of the complaint and does not extend either expressly or by implication the scope of the determination sought by the plaintiff, or which could be granted by the court.”
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.