14 N.C. App. 40 - Johnson v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Concrete Service Corp. v. Investors Group, Inc. (1986), Concrete Service Corp. v. Investors Group, Inc. (1986)
34 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 Sutton v. Duke · Fakouri v. Cadais · Gilchrist v. . Kitchen · Mitchell v. White Consolidated, Inc. · Wheeler v. Wheeler
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The canon of interpretation of the Federal Rules is one of liberality, and it has been held in numerous decisions that the general policy of the Rules is to disregard technicalities and form and determine the rights of litigants on the merits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goins v. Puleo
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.