Abernethy v. Nichols’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1986
10 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 Hanford v. McSwain · Stephens Ex Rel. Houston v. Childers · Nicholson v. . Cox · Wachovia Bank & Trust Co. v. Turner · Dunn v. . Jones
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court has held that under G.S. 1-220 [since repealed; now N.C.G.S § 1A-1, Rule 60(b)(1) ] a wife's failure or neglect to file answer in a suit against her and her husband, upon assurances by her husband that he will be responsible for and assume the defense of the action, is excusable neglect.”
2 later decisions 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.