Summey v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
262 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 262 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably Howerton v. Arai Helmet, Ltd. (2004), 199 N.C. App. 687 - Hardin v. KCS International, Inc. (2009)
262 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 Dobson v. Harris · 142 N.C. App. 688 - Summey v. Barker · Clifford v. River Bend Plantation, Inc. · 154 N.C. App. 448 - Summey v. Barker
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 262 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that any party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
35 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.