CARSON BY MEREDITH v. LeBlanc’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
172 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc. (1995), Renner v. Stafford (1993)
172 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 Bloodworth v. Ellis · Hooker v. Hancock · Cofield v. Nuckles · Kasco Mills, Inc. v. Ferebee · Grant v. Mays
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“those inferences from the facts that are most favorable to the nonmoving party, unless the inferences are forced, strained, or contrary to reason.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e) Limitation on Use of Deposition. — No motion for summary judgment in any action at law or to strike the evidence shall be sustained when based in whole or in part upon any depositions under Rule 4:5, unless such depositions are received in evidence under Rule 4:7(a)(4) or all parties to the suit or action shall agree that such deposition may be so used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n our discovery rules, we have cautioned that discovery ordinarily should not supplant the taking of evidence at a trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.