62 N.C. App. 282 - Biesecker v. Biesecker’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably 133 N.C. App. 116 - Martin v. Vance (1999), 67 N.C. App. 1 - Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Edwards (1984)
35 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 Fulp v. Fulp · Jones v. Lewis · 47 N.C. App. 84 - Parslow v. Parslow · Exum v. Lynch · 36 N.C. App. 774 - Beck v. Beck
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person signing a written instrument is under a duty to read it for his own protection, and ordinarily is charged with knowledge of its contents. Nor may he predicate an action for fraud on his ignorance of the legal effect of its terms.”
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.