Godwin v. Hinnant’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 1992
11 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 Glenn Ex Rel. Glenn v. City of Raleigh · Hawkins Ex Rel. Hawkins v. Simpson · Brown v. E. H. Clement Co. · Bartlett v. Hopkins · Gilchrist v. . Kitchen
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The statute providing for a compulsory reference, when it appears an accounting is necessary to determine the rights of the parties, rests on the assumption that this procedure will eliminate items not controverted and will enable the parties, by appropriate exceptions to the referee’s findings, to bring into sharp focus the items which are in controversy. ... A dissatisfied party is not permitted to take broadside exceptions to the findings. His exceptions, to be helpful and therefore effective in a just settlement of the controversy — the court’s objective, must be both specific and directed to a particular finding of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Judge Fountain had a right, in his discretion, to extend the time for filing the exceptions. The time limited in Judge Paul’s order was not intended to have greater force than the statutory provision limiting the time to file exceptions. G.S. 1-195. It did not impair the authority given to Judge Fountain by G.S. 1-152 to extend the time.””
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.