186 N.C. App. 442 - Atkinson v. Lesmeister’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 157 N.C. App. 396 - Leary v. N.C. Forest Products, Inc. · 141 N.C. App. 273 - Block v. County of Person · Lynn v. Overlook Development · 21 N.C. App. 287 - Barnes Ex Rel. Underwood v. McGee · Hartley v. Smith
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.
“[S]ince the driver of the automobile was not properly served, she cannot be held liable for negligence, and therefore there is no negligence to impute to the owner of the automobile.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Oates v. Parker“operate[d] as a disposition on the merits and preclude[d] subsequent litigation in the same manner as if the action had been prosecuted to a full adjudication against the plaintiff.”
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.