Ballenger v. Bowen’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Wright v. Craft (2006), Brown v. Pearson (1997)
76 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 Gilmore v. Ivey · Holloman v. McAllister · Good v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · PPG Industries, Inc. v. Orangeburg Paint & Decorating Center, Inc. · 34 N.C. App. 324 - Parker Oil Co. v. Smith
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A denial of a motion for summary judgment decides nothing about the merits of the case [and] does not establish the law of the case ... [t]herefore, an order denying a motion for summary judgment is not appealable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The denial of summary judgment does not establish the law of the case, and the issues raised in the motion may be raised again later in the proceedings by a motion to reconsider the summary judgment motion or by a motion for a directed verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is unnecessary to make findings of fact and conclusions of law in denying motions for summary judgment.”
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.