2 N.C. App. 388 - Clark v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2011
8 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 GENERAL AIR CONDITIONING COMPANY v. Douglass · Pitt v. . Speight
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he statutory lien is incident to and security for a debt.” Eason v. Dew, 244 N.C. 571, 574 , 94 S.E. 2d 603, 606 (1956). “A laborers’ and materialmen’s lien arises out of the relationship of debtor and creditor, and it is for the debt that the hen is created by statute. Without a contract the hen does not exist.” Clark v. Morris, 2 N.C. App. 388, 391 , 162 S.E. 2d 873, 874 (1968) (quoting Air Conditioning Co. v. Douglass, 241 N.C. 170 , 84 S.E. 2d 828 (1954).”
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.