148 N.C. App. 389 - Culler v. Hamlett’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably 169 N.C. App. 80 - Moody v. Able Outdoor, Inc. (2005), 170 N.C. App. 650 - Nicholson v. Jackson County School Board (2005)
35 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 Caldwell v. Deese · Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · Dobson v. Harris · Hogan v. Cone Mills Corp. · Ragland 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a final judgment on the merits in an earlier lawsuit; (2) identity of the cause of action in the prior suit and the later suit; and (3) an identity of the parties or their privies in both suits.”
3 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.