46 N.C. App. 190 - Stone v. Conder’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 2018
10 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 36 N.C. App. 109 - Mosley v. National Finance Co., Inc. · Lovett v. Stone · Sawyer v. Cox · Williams v. North Carolina State Board of Education · Alexander v. Richmond Cedar Works
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining a motion for summary judgment, the trial judge is not required to make finding [sic] of fact and conclusions of law and when he does make same, they are disregarded on appeal .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Rule 52(a)(2) does not apply to the decision on a summary judgment motion because, if findings of fact are necessary to resolve an issue, summary judgment is improper.”
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.