29 N.C. App. 504 - Tatum v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2011
16 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. Ford Motor Co. · Still v. Lance
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.
““Where a contract of employment contains no provision concerning the duration or term of employment, or the means hy which it may be terminated, it is terminable at the will of either party, with or without cause. Still v. Lance, 279 N.C. 254 , 182 S.E. 2d 403 (1971); 5 N.C. Index 2d, Master and Servant, § 10, p. 327.””
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.