28 N.C. App. 699 - Overton v. Henderson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently August 2019
7 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 Wegner v. Delly-Land Delicatessen, Inc. · Clemmons v. Life Insurance Company of Georgia
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he principal is liable for the acts of his agent, whether malicious or negligent, and the employer for similar acts of his employees,. . . . The test is whether the act was done within the scope of his employment and in the prosecution and furtherance of the business which was given him to do.”
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.