53 N.C. App. 715 - Carpenter v. Hawley’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably In Re Byrd (2001), Adoption B.B. v. R.K.B. (2017)
2 district · 30 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 Thomason v. Red Bird Cab Co. · 33 N.C. App. 575 - Gaines v. L. D. Swain & Son, Inc. · Ray Ex Rel. Gudger v. Ray · 17 N.C. App. 701 - North Carolina Ass'n of Licensed Detectives v. Morgan · Cabe v. Parker-Graham-Sexton, 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contrary to plaintiff's assertions, the word 'acknowledged' is not a term of art ... requiring a formal declaration before an authorized official.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[F]or the limited purpose of establishing who is entitled to the compensation payable under North Carolina’s Workers’ Compensation Act, the Industrial Commission has the authority to make a determination as to the paternity of an illegitimate child.”
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.