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← 191 N.C. App. 290 - Lord v. Beerman

191 N.C. App. 290 - Lord v. Beerman’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

34
cited by 34 later decisions
1
states following
June 2019
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 32 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Collingwood v. GEN. ELEC. R. EST. EQUIT. · Turner v. Duke University · Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · Hairston v. Alexander Tank & Equipment Co. · 38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell

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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “All inferences of fact from the proofs offered at the hearing must be drawn against the movant and in favor of the party opposing the motion.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “'[p]roximate cause is a cause which in natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new and independent cause, produced the plaintiff's injuries, and without which the injuries would not have occurred.'”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “demonstrate ... that the treatment administered by defendant was in negligent violation of the accepted standard of medical care in the community and that defendant's treatment proximately caused the injury.”
    3 later decisions 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.