176 N.C. App. 359 - Broadbent v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently November 2020
10 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 Koufman v. Koufman · Bryant v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · United Laboratories, Inc. v. Kuykendall · Anderson v. Hollifield · Britt v. Allen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order for evidence to be `newly discovered evidence' under [Rule 60(b)(2)], it must have been in existence at the time of the trial, and not discoverable through due diligence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]ewly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plaintiffs purchased fifty-eight acres of land in rural Transylvania County in April of 1994. In May of 1996, plaintiffs moved into the house they had constructed on the property. Defendants purchased an adjacent property in December of 1995, which was being used as farmland. After plaintiffs had moved into their house they learned that defendants intended to construct an airstrip. In August of 1998, plaintiffs learned that the airstrip was going to be used for commercial purposes. Aircraft began using the airport in September of 1998.”
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.