39 N.C. App. 450 - Burkhimer v. Gealy’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Farrell v. Planters Lifesavers Co. (2000), Kurtzman v. Applied Analytical Industries, Inc. (1997)
4 federal appellate · 22 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 Still v. Lance · Bizzell v. Bizzell · Nantz v. Employment Security Commission · Tuttle v. Kernersville Lumber Co. · Willetts v. Willetts
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“are terminable at will by either party. Where the employee gives some special consideration in addition to his services, such as relinquishing a claim for personal injuries against the employer, removing his residence from one place to another in order to accept employment, or assisting in breaking a strike, such a contract may be enforced. Burkhimer v. Gealy, 39 N.C.App. 450, 454 , 250 S.E.2d 678, 682 (emphasis added), disc. rev. denied, 297 N.C. 298 , 254 S.E.2d 918 (1979). The Court of Appeals relied upon this”
4 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.