48 N.C. App. 206 - Whitfield v. Winslow’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2019
8 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 Newton v. Standard Fire Insurance · 42 N.C. App. 259 - Shoffner Industries, Inc. v. W. B. Lloyd Construction Co. · SHOFFNER INDUSTRIES INC. v. WB Lloyd Construction Co. · Duval v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ince a portion of plaintiff's property is alleged to have remained submerged even at the commencement of this action, his cause of action is not barred on the face of the pleadings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a renewing rather than a continuing trespass.”
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.