Green v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Corwin as Trustee for Beatrice Corwin Living Irrevocable Trust v. British American Tobacco PLC (2018), Krawiec v. Manly (2018)
187 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 Davis v. United States · Dalton v. Camp · Barger v. McCoy Hillard & Parks · Glenn v. Wagner · Abbitt v. . Gregory
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there has been a special confidence reposed in one who in equity and good conscience is bound to act in good faith and with due regard to the interests of the one reposing confidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(1) Control ... complete domination, not only of finances, but of policy and business practice in respect to the transaction attacked[;] ... and (2) Such control must have been used by the defendant to commit fraud or wrong, to perpetrate the violation of a ... positive legal duty ... in contravention of [a] plaintiff's legal rights; and (3) The aforesaid control and breach of duty must proximately cause the injury or unjust loss complained of.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A scintilla is some evidence, and is defined by this Court 'as very slight evidence.' " Mace v. Pyatt , 203 N.C. App. 245 , 251, 691 S.E.2d 81 , 87 (2010) (some quotation marks and citation omitted). "If there is evidence to support each element of the nonmoving party's cause of action, then the motion for directed verdict and any subsequent motion for [judgment notwithstanding the verdict] should be denied.”
3 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.