Shankle v. Shankle’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 72 N.C. App. 372 - Wade v. Wade (1985), State v. Weaver (1982)
112 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 Smith v. Bryant · Abernethy v. State Planters Bank & Trust Co.
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In passing on the motion [to continue] the trial court must pass on the grounds urged in support of it . . . .”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) No continuance shall be granted except upon application to the court. A continuance may be granted only for good cause shown and upon such terms and conditions as justice may require. Good cause for granting a continuance shall include those instances when a party to the proceeding, a witness, or counsel of record has an obligation of service to the State of North Carolina, including service as a member of the General Assembly.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ontinuances are not favored and the party seeking a continuance has the burden of showing sufficient grounds for it[,]”
2 later decisions 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.