35 N.C. App. 235 - Sides v. Reid’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably 51 N.C. App. 545 - Town of Sylva v. Gibson (1981), 44 N.C. App. 584 - Fountain v. Patrick (1980)
26 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 Moore v. Deal · 30 N.C. App. 420 - Norton v. Sawyer · Brady v. Town of Chapel Hill · 10 N.C. App. 703 - Doxol Gas of Angier, Inc. v. Barefoot · Oil Co. v. Pochna
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n motion and upon such terms as are just, a court may relieve a party from a judgment if, among other reasons, it is no longer equitable that the judgment have prospective application.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a movant is uncertain whether to proceed under clause (1) or (6) of Rule 60(b), he need not specify if his motion is timely and the reason justifies relief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The broad language of clause (6) `gives the court ample power to vacate judgments whenever such action is appropriate to accomplish justice.'”
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.