Anderson v. Hollifield’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
112 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 194 N.C. App. 1 - Strickland v. Hedrick (2008), In Re the Will of Buck (1999)
112 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 Worthington v. Bynum · Campbell v. Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Inc. · Settee v. Charlotte Electric Railway Co. · 123 N.C. App. 426 - Anderson v. Hollifield
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 21(a)(1) gives an appellate court the authority to review the merits of an appeal by certiorari even if the party has failed to file notice of appeal in a timely manner.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Doe v. Doe · In re: S.Z.H.“`only in those exceptional cases where an abuse of discretion is clearly shown.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“'[A]n appellate court should not disturb a discretionary Rule 59 order unless it is reasonably convinced by the cold record that the trial judge's ruling probably amounted to a substantial miscarriage of justice.'”
5 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.