5 N.C. App. 60 - Rowe v. McGee’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2011
2 district · 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 Kurtigian v. City of Worcester · Sterling v. Weinstein · Chambers v. Whelen · Griefield v. Gibralter F. M. Ins. Co. · Griefield v. Gibraltar Fire & Marine Ins.
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.
“Where the defendants knew that the tree on their property was decayed and liable to fall and to damage the property of [his neighbors], we think and hold that the defendants were under a duty to eliminate the danger and could not with impunity place such burden to remove the tree on [the plaintiffs].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where a natural condition of land causes an invasion of another’s interest in the use and enjoyment of other land, the possessor of the land containing- the natural condition is not liable for such invasion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Barker v. Brown
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.