23 N.C. App. 21 - Corbin v. Langdon’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 88 N.C. App. 437 - Robertson v. Boyd (1988), 108 N.C. App. 268 - Routh v. Snap-On Tools Corp. (1992)
42 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 Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · Root v. Allstate Insurance Company · Weyerhaeuser Company v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · Sell Ex Rel. Bason v. Hotchkiss · Parks v. Venters Oil Company
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language is clear and unambiguous, the court is obliged to interpret the contract as written, and cannot, under the guise of construction, reject what parties inserted or insert what parties elected to omit.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where the language is clear and unambiguous, the court is obliged to interpret the contract as written, . . . and cannot, under the guise of construction, ‘reject what the parties inserted or insert what the parties elected to omit.’”
2 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.