150 N.C. App. 163 - Colombo v. Stevenson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
June 2011
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clark v. Connor · Blevins v. Moran · Bartlett v. Jacobs · 116 N.C. App. 206 - Early v. Bowen · BETTS BY AND THROUGH PARKER v. Parrish
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`to render a will operative and to give effect to [a] testator's intent if reasonable interpretation can be given which is not in contravention of some established rule of 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.