47 N.C. App. 323 - Brown v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
22 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 39 N.C. App. 77 - Swenson v. Thibaut · In Re Blalock · James v. Pretlow · 29 N.C. App. 112 - Sherwood v. Sherwood · 41 N.C. App. 273 - General Specialities Co. v. Nello L. Teer Co.
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of attorney’s fees . . . cannot be upheld where the court failed to make findings of fact upon which a determination of the reasonableness of the fees can be based, such as the nature and scope of the legal services rendered, and skill and time required (citation omitted). The conclusory finding that plaintiffs attorney had rendered ‘valuable’ legal services fails to qualify as a finding upon which a determination of the reasonableness of the . . . fee can be based.”
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.