61 N.C. App. 488 - Atkins v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably 132 N.C. App. 569 - Cloer v. Smith (1999), 82 N.C. App. 502 - Brooks v. Rogers (1986)
34 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 McDowell v. Blythe Bros. Co. · Gardner v. Gardner · Knowles v. Coach Co. · Kirkman v. Kirkman · Pittman v. Pittman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ny claim which at the time of serving the pleading the pleader has against any opposing party, if it arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the opposing party’s claim and does not require for its adjudication the presence of third parties of whom the court cannot acquire jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our Supreme Court has treated refusal to abate on grounds of a prior pending action as immediately appealable. [Citations omitted.] Subsequent to the adoption of G.S. 1A-1, Rule 13(a), relating to compulsory counterclaims, that Court has treated denial of a motion to dismiss on the ground of a prior action pending as a motion pursuant to that rule, and has allowed immediate review. [Citation omitted.]”
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.