Skipper v. Cheatham’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently November 1998 · most notably Sutton v. Duke (1970), Raper v. McCRORY-McLELLAN CORPORATION (1963)
55 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 Fanelty v. Rogers Jewelers, Inc. · Shives v. Sample · Mills v. Richardson · Fleming v. Twiggs · Davis v. Rhodes
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a demurrer is sustained, the action will be then dismissed only if the allegations of the complaint affirmatively disclose a defective cause of action, that is, that plaintiff has no cause of action against the defendant.” Skipper v. Cheatham, 249 N.C. 706 , 107 S.E. 2d 625 .”
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.