Humphries v. Going’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1994
4 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 Hanna v. Plumer · Williams v. United States · United States v. Northern Paiute Nation · Atlantic Seaboard Corp. v. Federal Power Commission · 297 F. Supp. 1366 - Jackson v. Airways Parking Company
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . if the facts alleged in the amended pleading so closely relate to the conduct, transaction, or occurrences surrounding the [incidents] set forth in the original pleading that they could be held to arise out of that [incident], then the claim asserted in the amended pleading relates back to the date of the original pleading.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n North Carolina even a new cause of action can be said to relate back for amendment purposes.”
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.