Turlington v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Carolina Power & Light Co. v. City of Asheville (2004), Wise v. HARRINGTON GROVE COMMUNITY ASS'N (2003)
52 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 Underwood v. Howland · Trought v. Richardson · Harrison v. . Guilford County · HOUSING AUTHORITY OF CITY OF GREENSBORO v. Farabee · Candler v. Sluder
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'stintingly ... to provide less than what their terms would ordinarily be interpreted as providing. Strict construction of statutes requires only that their application be limited to their express terms, as those terms are naturally and ordinarily defined.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“`its natural and ordinary meaning unless the context requires otherwise.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“When interpreting private contracts ..., a court must give effect to any trade usage and special definitions of terms understood by both parties, as it is such understanding of the parties that defines the contract, its scope and its enforceability.”
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.