51 N.C. App. 134 - Williams v. Spell’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
December 2017
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Exum v. Boyles
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.
“placed himself in a position of helpless peril by walking on the roadway with the flow of traffic, that is, with his back to traffic.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Proffitt v. Gosnell
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.