189 N.C. App. 696 - Knight v. Higgs’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matters of Lee Roy Murchison and John Whites · Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co. v. Board of Commissioners · 107 N.C. App. 154 - Shear v. Stevens Building Co. · Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners of Town of Nags Head · Willetts v. Insurance Corp.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Conclusions of law drawn by the trial court from its findings of fact are reviewable de novo on appeal.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]o the extent this Court determines that adjudication on the merits of Appellants' claims was proper, the express terms of the trial court's ruling compel a conclusion that the Board violated the Open Meetings Law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a meeting, assembly, or gathering together at any time or place or the simultaneous communication by conference telephone or other electronic means of a majority of the members of a public body....”
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.