Waters v. North Carolina Phosphate Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2011
18 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 Hensley v. Ramsey · Shingleton v. State · Gaston-Lincoln Transit, Inc. v. Maryland Casualty Co. · Borders v. Yarbrough · Yount v. Lowe
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . a purchaser of land will examine each recorded deed and other instrument in his chain of title and [that the law] charges him with notice of every fact affecting his title which an accurate examination of the title would disclose.”
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.