27 N.C. App. 616 - Battle v. Clanton’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably 101 Ill. 2d 196 - Alsup v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. (1984), Sims v. Honda Motor Co. (1993)
2 district · 36 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 Firstamerica Corp. v. United States · Hasselrode v. Gnagey · Peters v. Butler · Panichella v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Sell Ex Rel. Bason v. Hotchkiss
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ll other persons, firms, or corporations who are or might be liable, from all claims of any kind or character which I have or might have against it, him or them, and especially because of all damages, losses or injuries ... [arising out of subject accident] and I hereby acknowledge full settlement and satisfaction of all claims of whatever kind or character which I or my heirs, executors, administrators, successors or assigns may have against it, him or them by reason of the above-mentioned damages, losses or injuries.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“all other persons, firms, and corporations”
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.