46 N.C. App. 787 - Williams v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2018
18 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 39 N.C. App. 77 - Swenson v. Thibaut · Dockery v. LAMPART TABLE COMPANY · Wyrough & Loser, Inc. v. Pelmor Laboratories, Inc. · Simms v. MASON'S STORES, INC.(NC-1) · Swenson v. Thibaut
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No instance can be found in which a party has been held to have impliedly bound himself to submission, without having asked or received some relief in the cause or participated in some step taken therein . Mere presence in the courtroom when the case is called, or examination of the papers in it filed in the clerk's office, is not enough. Nor could a conversation with plaintiff's counsel or the judge of the court, about the case, be regarded as an appearance .... The test, ... is whether the defendant became an actor in the cause ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a general appearance by a party's attorney will dispense with process and service”
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.