161 N.C. App. 680 - Morris v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 140 N.C. App. 390 - Norman v. Nash Johnson & Sons' Farms, Inc. · State Ex Rel. Utilities Commission v. Edmisten · State v. Camp · 146 N.C. App. 159 - Creek Pointe Homeowner's Ass'n v. Happ · 155 N.C. App. 624 - American Woodland Industries, Inc. v. Tolson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A 'derivative proceeding' is a civil action brought . . . 'in the right of' a corporation, . . . while an individual action is . . . [brought] to enforce a right which belongs to [plaintiff] personally.”
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.