Perkins v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 2013
19 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 Rhodes v. Jones · Hege v. Sellers · Honeycutt v. Citizens National Bank in Gastonia · Carlisle v. . Carlisle · Davis v. Vaughn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is well settled that the averments as to set-off or counterclaim must be definite and certain. Vague, general, and indefinite allegations are not sufficient. The counterclaim is substantially the allegation of a cause of action on the part o>f the defendant against the plaintiff, and it ought to be set forth with'" * * precision and certainty.’ Bank v. Hill, 169 N.C. 235 , 85 S.E. 209 ; Bank v. Northcutt, 169 N.C. 219 , 85 S.E. 210 ; G.S. 1-135.””
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.