38 N.C. App. 438 - Harmon v. Pugh’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently January 2013
14 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 6 Wis. 2d 498 - Tonn v. Reuter · Rock v. Ballou · Casket Co. v. . Wheeler · Randolph v. Schuyler
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A contingent fee) contract, even though found to have been entered into fairly and in good faith and without suppression of fact, is subject ... to the scrutiny of the court as to its reasonableness”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A contingent-fee contract is always subject to the supervision of the courts as to its reasonableness”
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.