Andrews v. Bruton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Roberts v. William N. & Kate B. Reynolds Mem. Park (1972), McDaris v. Breit Bar" T" Corporation (1965)
65 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 Dobias v. White · Locklear v. Oxendine · Deans v. Deans · Barnes v. Caulbourne · Norman v. Williams
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“locate the land by fitting the description in the deeds to the earth's surface.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““A plaintiff must make out his case secundum allegata. Barnes v. Caulbourne, 240 N.C. 721 , 83 S.E. 2d 898 . There can be no recovery except on the case made by his pleadings. Collas v. Regan, 240 N.C. 472 , 82 S.E. 2d 215 . Proof without allegation is no better than allegation without proof. Messick v. Turnage, 240 N.C. 625 , 83 S.E. 2d 654 . When there is a material variance between allegation and proof, motion for judgment of nonsuit will be allowed. Suggs v. Braxton, 227 N.C. 50 , 40 S.E. 2d 470 .” Andrews v. Bruton, 242 N.C. 93 , 86 S.E. 2d 786 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moody v. Kersey
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.