60 N.C. App. 234 - Bowling v. Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2018
15 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 Peek v. Wachovia Bank & Trust Company · Hawkins v. M & J FINANCE CORP. · STATE EX REL. UTILITIES COM'N v. Lumbee River EMC · Davis v. NC Granite Corporation · Skinner v. Whitley
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only the 'collector of the decedent’ or the personal representative — i.e., the administrator of an intestate, or the executor of one who dies testate — may institute an action for wrongful death; and he does so as the representative of the estate.” Bowling v. Combs, 60 N.C.App. 234 , 298 S.E.2d 754, 756 (1983). The term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where only one inference can reasonably be drawn from undisputed facts, the question of estoppel is one of law for the court to determine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the evidence bearing on the issue of estoppel [is] conflicting and susceptible of diverse inferences[,]”
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.