60 N.C. App. 64 - Roper v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2016
21 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 Rappaport v. Days Inn of America, Inc. · 47 N.C. App. 518 - Quail Hollow East Condominium Association v. Donald J. Scholz Co. · Quail Hollow East Condominium Association v. Donald J. Scholz Company · Firemen's Mutual Insurance v. High Point Sprinkler Co. · Bennett v. ANSON BANK & TRUST 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“explor[e] settlement possibilities [is] a function to be commended to all trial judges in civil cases”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Discretion in the trial court is not unlimited, however, and the amendment should not be granted when the opposing party would be prejudiced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should be liberal in ... allowance and application.”
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.