21 N.C. App. 215 - Thompson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2004
6 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 Craver v. . Spaugh · Cahoon v. Brinkley · Leduc v. . Slocomb
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.
“This Court has held that “When a man has business in court, the best thing he can do is to attend it[,]” and this has been often quoted and reaffirmed. It has also been held that “A litigant must pay the same attention to a case in court that any one would give to business of importance.” Even when he has employed counsel, he cannot abandon all attention to the case, and in this case the defendant well knew he had no counsel. It has also been held that one who has been made party to an action by summons is fixed with notice of all orders and proceedings taken in open court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A party to a legal action, having been duly served with process, is bound to keep himself advised as to the time and date his cause is calendared for trial for hearing; and when a case is listed on the court calendar, he has notice of the time and date of the hearing.”
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.