McCutchen v. McCutchen’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 93 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Crocker v. Roethling (2009), 181 N.C. App. 742 - Esposito v. Talbert & Bright, Inc. (2007)
91 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 Veazey v. City of Durham · Howerton v. Arai Helmet, Ltd. · Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company · Snyder v. Freeman · Department of Transportation v. Rowe
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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Summary judgment is appropriate 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.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`affects some substantial right claimed by the appellant and will work an injury to him if not corrected before an appeal from the final judgment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[T]he statute of limitations begins to run once a cause of action accrues,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.