51 N.C. App. 264 - Cunningham v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Creech v. Melnik (1998), 112 N.C. App. 295 - Miller v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance (1993)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 54 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 Veazey v. City of Durham · Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Terry v. Terry · Oestreicher v. American National Stores, Inc.
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“language contrary to this mutual agreement and intention in that by its terms it released other joint tortfeasors as well,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“release and forever discharge LANCE CUNNINGHAM [plaintiff-husband] and any other person, firm, or corporation charged or chargeable with responsibility or liability . . . from any and all claims . . . loss or damages of any kind already sustained or that [she] may hereafter sustain in consequence of [the accident].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`that the weight of the evidence compels the conclusion that the language of the release instrument must prevail or that [the release] is consistent with the intention of the parties, the existence of [a] genuine issue of fact precludes a determination of the matter upon the record.'”
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.