In Re Dillingham’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably State Ex Rel. Commissioner of Insurance v. North Carolina Rate Bureau (1980), Ridge Community Investors, Inc. v. Berry (1977)
34 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 State v. Warren · Victory Cab Co. v. City of Charlotte · Turner Ex Rel. Turner v. Gastonia City Board of Education · State ex rel. Spriggs v. Robinson · Schomig v. Keiser
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Board . . . shall . . . have power to suspend or revoke any license issued under the provisions of this Chapter . . . where the licensee in performing or attempting to perform any of the acts mentioned herein is deemed to be guilty of: . . . (8) being unworthy or incompetent to act as a real estate broker or salesman in such manner as to safeguard the interest of the public. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The portion of our Act which empowers The Board to revoke the license of a real estate broker or salesman is penal in its nature and should not be construed to include anything as a ground for revocation which is not embraced within its terms.”
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.