18 N.C. App. 45 - Collins v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably McCarley v. McCarley (1976), 125 N.C. App. 483 - Renner v. Hawk (1997)
46 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 Hart v. Thomasville Motors, Inc. · Joyner v. Joyner · In Re the Custody of Sauls · Safie Manufacturing Co. v. Arnold · Manufacturing Co. v. . Arnold
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the former practice a judgment of voluntary nonsuit terminated the action and no suit was pending thereafter in which the court could make a valid order. 7 Strong, N. C. Index 2d, Trial, § 30, p. 317. We think the same rule applies to an action in which a plaintiff takes a voluntary dismissal under G.S. 1A-1, Rule 41(a) (1).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When an appeal is perfected as provided by this article it stays all further proceedings in the court below upon the judgment appealed from, or upon the matter embraced therein; but the court below may proceed upon any other matter included in the action and not affected by the judgment appealed from.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]laintiff’s voluntary dismissal of the prior action . . . was a final termination of that action and ... no valid order could be made thereafter in that cause.”
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.