48 N.C. App. 714 - Roberts v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2016
6 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 Robertson Ex Rel. Robertson v. Stanley · SHOFFNER INDUSTRIES INC. v. WB Lloyd Construction Co. · Potts v. Howser · Chemical Bank v. Belk · Table Rock Lumber Co. v. Branch
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In light of our disposition of this case, it is not necessary to consider the remaining assignments of error. Although the error in excluding the witnesses' testimony relates to the damages issue, in our discretion, we order a new trial on all the issues.”
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.