Yancey v. Lea’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 170 N.C. App. 438 - Clayton v. Branson (2005), 153 N.C. App. 488 - Clayton v. Branson (2002)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 66 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 Woodson v. Rowland · Investment Properties of Asheville, Inc. v. Norburn · Hinson v. Dawson · Bullins v. Schmidt · Brewer v. Harris
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]ur case law as developed to this point reflects that the gross negligence issue has been confined to circumstances where at least one of three rather dynamic factors is present: (1) defendant is intoxicated; (2) defendant is driving at excessive speeds; or (3) defendant is engaged in a racing competition. In some of these cases, a combination of the above factors are present.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“An act is done wilfully when it is done purposefully and deliberately in violation of law, (citation omitted) or when it is done knowingly and of set purpose, or when the mere will has free play, without yielding to reason.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[a]n act is wanton when it is done of wicked purpose ...,'”
3 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.