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← 263 N.C. 578 - Pinyan v. Settle

Pinyan v. Settle’s Empirical Analysis

1965

Citation profile

32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
July 1994
most recently cited

4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently July 1994 · most notably Nance v. Parks (1966), Cutts v. Casey (1967)

4 federal appellate · 24 state decisions

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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 Bundy v. . Powell · Lewis v. . Watson · Glenn Ex Rel. Glenn v. City of Raleigh · Bridges v. Graham · Jackson v. Stancil

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`(A) prudent man increases his watchfulness as the possibility of danger mounts.'”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “competent to prevent any of the probable dangers”
    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.