ConnolLy v. Potts’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hotel Corp. v. Taylor and Fletcher v. Foremans, Inc. · 47 N.C. App. 599 - In Re the Foreclosure of the Deed of Trust of Burgess · 38 N.C. App. 525 - Liles v. Myers · Industries, Inc. v. Tharpe · 29 N.C. App. 248 - Furst v. Loftin
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the fact of possession which is significant ..., and the absence of possession defeats that status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]t is the fact of possession which is significant in determining whether a person is a holder”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“introduced the originals of the note and deed of trust,”
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.