170 N.C. App. 176 - Milton v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently May 2023
18 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 Veazey v. City of Durham · Bailey v. Gooding · 119 N.C. App. 730 - North Carolina Department of Transportation v. Page · 113 N.C. App. 19 - Liggett Group, Inc. v. Sunas · 149 N.C. App. 475 - Flitt v. Flitt
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“made during the pendency of an action which do not dispose of the case, but instead leave it for further action by the trial court in order to settle and determine the entire controversy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, there is no right to immediate appeal from an interlocutory order.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the order is final as to some claims or parties, and the trial court certifies pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 1A-1, Rule 54(b) that there is no just reason to delay the appeal, or (2) the order deprives the appellant of a substantial right that would be lost unless immediately reviewed.”
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.