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← 196 N.C. 478 - Goins v. . Sargent

Goins v. . Sargent’s Empirical Analysis

1929

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
March 2012
most recently cited

4 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2012

4 state decisions

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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.

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.

  1. “If any person, agent, company or corporation, after having discharged any employee from his or its service, shall prevent or attempt to prevent, by word or writing of any kind, such discharged employee from obtaining employment with any other person, company or corporation, such person, agent or corporation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and ... shall be liable in penal damages to such discharged person, to be recovered by civil action. This section shall not be construed as prohibiting any person ... from furnishing in writing, upon request, any other person, company or corporation to whom such discharged person has applied for employment, a truthful statement of the reason for such discharge.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Under the statute regulating our present system of procedure (Revisal 1905, sec. 507, et seq .), and numerous decisions construing the same, the power of amendment has been very broadly conferred, and may and ordinarily should be exercised in `furtherance of justice,' unless the effect is to add a new cause of action or change the subject-matter thereof; and our cases on the subject hold that where the amendment is germane to the original action, involving substantially the same transaction and presenting no real departure from the demand as originally stated, it shall, when allowed, have reference by relation to the original institution of the suit.”
    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.