140 N.C. App. 238 - Torres v. McClain’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Volvo Construction Equipment North America, Inc. v. CLM Equipment Co. (2004), 154 N.C. App. 639 - Cable Tel Services, Inc. v. Overland Contracting, Inc. (2002)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Boudreau v. Baughman · Walters v. Walters · 131 Ill. App. 3d 753 - In Re Marriage of Korper · Cavenaugh v. Cavenaugh · 46 N.C. App. 694 - Behr v. Behr
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“generally binding on the interpreting court as long as they had a reasonable basis for their choice and the law of the chosen State does not violate a fundamental public policy of the state or otherwise applicable law.”
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.