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← 147 N.C. App. 517 - Lee v. Baxter

147 N.C. App. 517 - Lee v. Baxter’s Empirical Analysis

2001

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
February 2019
most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 119 N.C. App. 730 - North Carolina Department of Transportation v. Page · 60 N.C. App. 331 - Blackwelder v. State Department of Human Resources · DKH CORP. v. Rankin-Patterson Oil Co. · 75 N.C. App. 654 - Fraser v. Di Santi · 101 N.C. App. 636 - Herndon v. Barrett

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A]voiding the time and expense of trial is not a substantial right justifying immediate appeal.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “`The reason for this rule is to prevent fragmentary, premature and unnecessary appeals by permitting the trial court to bring the case to final judgment before it is presented to the appellate courts.'”
    2 later decisions 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.