North Carolina Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. Holley’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2003
8 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 Agency Holding Corp. v. Malley-Duff & Associates, Inc. · Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie · Bankers Life & Casualty Co. v. Crenshaw · 493 So. 2d 1374 - Hammond v. City of Gadsden · 405 So. 2d 1 - Chavers v. National SEC. Fire & Cas. Co.
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.
“the insured . . . was related to the plaintiff . . ., the plaintiff occupied a special relationship with the insured . . . and was involved in some degree in the application process[,] the plaintiff . . . had assumed some responsibility for the care of the insured[,] . . . the benefits payable under the policy . . . would have been beneficial to the plaintiff in paying any obligation arising out of the plaintiff's assumption of responsibility for the care or burial of the insured[,] . . . and the plaintiff [had] paid either all of the premiums or some of the premiums.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In a special concurring opinion in Alabama Power Co. v. Cantrell, 507 So.2d 1295, 1308 (Ala.1986), I stated that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.