In Re Blalock’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
93 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 39 N.C. App. 77 - Swenson v. Thibaut (1978), Town of Blowing Rock v. Gregorie (1956)
93 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Town of Burnsville v. Boone · Hersey v. Hersey · Gibson v. Central Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance · Culbreth v. Britt Corp. · Perkins v. Sykes
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... a general appearance is one whereby the defendant submits his person to the jurisdiction of the court by invoking the judgment of the court in any manner on any question other than that of the jurisdiction of the court over his person.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[F]or the purpose of learning and giving effect to the legislative intention, all statutes relating to the same subject are to be compared and so construed in reference to each other that effect may be given to all provisions of each, if it can be done by any fair and reasonable interpretation. Alexander v. Lowrance, 182 N.C. 642 , 109 S.E. 639 .”
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.