Van Every v. Van Every’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company (1970), 42 N.C. App. 449 - Rosenthal v. Perkins (1979)
25 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 Erickson v. Starling · Sale v. Johnson · Kiger v. Kiger · Joyner v. Joyner · Archbell v. Archbell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The presence of able counsel for the wife at the conference resulting in a separation agreement, and at the time she executes and acknowledges a deed of separation, “negatives the inference ■ or contention that she was incompetent to understand the arrangements, and was ignorant of its terms and did not know what she was doing, (citing authorities). . . .” ’ Joyner v. Joyner, 264 N.C. 27 , 140 S.E. 2d 714 .””
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.