Sutherland v. Sutherland’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 39 N.C. App. 77 - Swenson v. Thibaut · Richardson v. State Highway & Transportation Commission · Carter v. St. John's Regional Medical Center · Solimine v. Hollander · Zakibe v. Ahrens & McCarron, Inc.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A limited liability company, like a corporation, is an artificial being, and as an entity it must act through an agent.”
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.