43 N.C. App. 655 - Petrou v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 42 Cal. 3d 1157 - Oren Royal Oaks Venture v. Greenberg, Bernard, Weiss & Karma Inc. (1986), Buschi v. Kirven (1985)
7 federal appellate · 26 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 Stanback v. Stanback · Zimmerman v. Hogg & Allen, Professional Ass'n · Moore v. Fieldcrest Mills, Inc. · 41 N.C. App. 661 - Davidson & Jones, Inc. v. County of New Hanover · Hodges v. Carter
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.
“[i]f an attorney whose primary duty is to promote the cause of his client in a light most favorable to him within the bounds of the law is also required to protect the rights of an adverse party, he will be caught in the midst of a conflict of interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the extent to which the transaction was intended to affect the other person; (2) the foreseeability of harm to him; (3) the degree of certainty that he suffered injury; (4) the closeness of the connection between the defendant's conduct and the injury; (5) the moral blame attached to such conduct; and (6) the policy of preventing future harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the process has been used to accomplish some end which is without the regular purview of the process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vodrey v. Golden
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.