In Re Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2011
24 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 In Re Watson · Mohler v. Department of Labor · In Re Steelman · State Ex Rel. Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Barber · Dwyer v. Unemployment Compensation Commission
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Commission’s requirement, therefore, placed too great a burden on her. . . . G.S. s 143 — 318(1) [now G.S. § 150B-29(a)] requires the State agencies and boards charged with the duty of finding facts to observe the rules of evidence “as applied in the superior and district courts.” In the superior court, except in extraordinary cases, the burden of proof is by the greater weight of the evidence. Proof beyond a reasonable doubt is confined to criminal offenses. Proof by clear, cogent, and convincing evidence is required to establish parole trusts, contents of lost documents, and such matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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