60 N.C. App. 575 - Brown v. Lanier’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently March 2018
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 Sutton v. Duke · Mims v. Mims · Exum v. Boyles · Vernon v. Crist · 51 N.C. App. 264 - Cunningham v. Brown
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 materials on file clearly show that, while the parties are in agreement that plaintiff did in fact sign the release, there are genuine disputes as to whether he knew what he was signing and as to whether the release was obtained by misrepresentation or fraud.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“failed to specifically plead the fraud he relie[d] on in avoidance of the release”
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.