Culton v. Culton’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 172 N.C. App. 1 - In the Matter of JB (2005), In Re JAA (2005)
51 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 Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · State v. Fayetteville Street Christian School · Freeman v. . Thompson · 46 N.C. App. 622 - Metcalf v. Palmer · WALDRON BUICK COMPANY v. General Motors Corp.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An aggrieved party is one whose rights have been directly and injuriously affected by the action of the court.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]nly a `party aggrieved' may appeal from an order or judgment of the trial division.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“nothing in N.C. Gen.Stat. § 35A-1101 shall interfere with the authority of a judge to appoint a guardian ad litem for a party to litigation under Rule 17(b) of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.”
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.