Carver v. Carver’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 85 N.C. App. 262 - Byrne v. Bordeaux (1987), 77 N.C. App. 808 - McMiller v. McMiller (1985)
79 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 Gillikin v. Burbage · State Highway Commission v. Hemphill · Bowen v. CONSTRUCTORS EQUIPMENT RENTAL COMPANY · Raftery v. Wm. C. Vick Construction Co. · Small Ex Rel. Balthis v. Morrison
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“construed together in order to ascertain legislative intent”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““[I]n wrongful death actions where recovery depends on establishing the liability of a party who is also a beneficiary of the decedent’s estate, the recovery obtained shall be reduced by the party-beneficiary’s pro rata share and the party-beneficiary is precluded from participating in the recovery; but the action may be maintained on behalf of the other beneficiaries, if any. Further, if recovery in a wrongful death action depends on establishing the liability of a party who is the sole beneficiary of decedent’s estate, the action may not be brought at all.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n determining whether any wrongful death action is maintainable, this Court has consistently analyzed the question in terms of whether the deceased had he lived would have had a claim against defendant for injuries inflicted. If so, then the estate of the deceased may maintain an action for wrongful death; if not, then the action for wrongful death will not lie.”
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.