Floyd v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2006 · most notably Williams v. Carolina Power & Light Co. (1979), Martishius v. Carolco Studios, Inc. (2002)
27 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 Lewis v. Barnhill · Mintz v. Town of Murphy · Essick v. City of Lexington · Davis v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · Philyaw v. City of Kinston
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Even if negligence by either of these defendants could reasonably be inferred upon the evidence in this record, the evidence leads inescapably to the conclusion that the deceased . . . was guilty of contributory negligence. Knowing of the presence of the power line, and having filled his tank on previous occasions, the deceased, for some unknown reason, permitted the metal blower pipe ... to come in contact with the power line. This tragic lapse of attention to a known danger in the immediate, vicinity must be deemed negligence by the deceased.” 268 N.C. at 551 , 151 S.E. 2d at 4 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.