26 N.C. App. 168 - Hill v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 70 N.C. App. 221 - Coastal Production Credit Ass'n v. Goodson Farms, Inc. (1984), 59 N.C. App. 145 - Hillman v. United States Liability Insurance (1982)
45 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 Hicks v. Albertson · City of Charlotte v. McNeely · 12 N.C. App. 286 - Austin v. Austin · 20 N.C. App. 241 - Redevelopment Commission of Hendersonville v. Hyder · 23 N.C. App. 136 - Redevelopment Commission of Winston-Salem v. Weatherman
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n any personal injury or property damage suit, or suit against an insurance company under a policy issued by the defendant insurance company and in which the insured or beneficiary is the plaintiff, upon a finding by the court that there was an unwarranted refusal by the defendant insurance company to pay the claim which constitutes the basis of such suit, instituted in a court of record, where the judgment for recovery of damages is ten thousand dollars ($10,000) or less, the presiding judge may, in his discretion, allow a reasonable attorney fee to the duly licensed attorney representing the litigant obtaining a judgment for damages in said suit, said attorney’s fee to be taxed as a part of the court costs.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““The obvious purpose of this section is to provide relief for a person who has sustained injury or property damage in an amount so small that, if he must pay his attorney out of his recovery, he may well conclude that it is not economically feasible to bring suit on his claim . . . This legislation, being remedial, should be construed liberally to accomplish the purpose of the Legislature and to bring within it all cases fairly within its intended scope ...””
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.