55 N.C. App. 430 - Roberts v. Wake Forest University’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2005
2 federal appellate · 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 Still v. Lance · Tuttle v. Kernersville Lumber Co. · Malever v. Kay Jewelry Co. · Howell v. Commercial Credit Corp. · 3 N.C. App. 435 - Freeman v. Hardee's Food Systems, 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“expressly refers to the employment as 'a regular, permanent job.' " Id. If, however, there is a business usage or other circumstance "which shows that, at the time the parties contracted, they intended the employment to continue through a fixed term, the contract cannot be terminated at an earlier period except for cause or by mutual consent.”
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.