38 N.C. App. 310 - Shellhorn v. Brad Ragan, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 189 N.C. App. 755 - Carpenter v. Carpenter (2008), 147 N.C. App. 596 - Department of Transportation v. Blue (2001)
58 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 Ragsdale v. Kennedy · Willis v. Duke Power Co.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] determination that particular information is relevant for discovery is not conclusive of its admissibility as relevant evidence at trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the information need only be `reasonably calculated' to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence....”
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.