Beard v. WakeMed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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. “The test for abuse of discretion is whether a decision is manifestly unsupported by reason, or so arbitrary that it could not have been the result of a reasoned decision. Because the reviewing court does not in the first instance make the judgment, the purpose of the reviewing court is not to substitute its judgment in place of the decision maker. Rather, the reviewing court sits only to insure that the decision could, in light of the factual context in which it is made, be the product of reason.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 233 N.C. App. 773 - Willard v. VP Builders, Inc.

2. “[T]he fact that the Commission may not have made a finding of fact regarding every piece of evidence presented does not mean that the Commission 'ignored' that evidence, but only that it did not determine that a finding of fact regarding such evidence was necessary to support its determination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 242 N.C. App. 383 - Dominguez v. Francisco Dominguez Masonry, Inc.

3. “We will not reweigh the evidence before the Commission[.]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 260 N.C. App. 155 - Garrett v. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.