64 N.C. App. 439 - Goble v. Helms’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably 162 N.C. App. 259 - Dunn v. Custer (2004), 151 N.C. App. 139 - Estate of Hendrickson Ex Rel. Hendrickson v. Genesis Health Venture, Inc. (2002)
24 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 Worthington v. Bynum · Rutledge v. Tultex Corp./Kings Yarn · Gillikin v. Burbage · Lockwood v. McCaskill · Nicholson v. Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital, Inc.
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.
“[Compensation for lost earning capacity is recoverable when such loss is “the immediate and necessary consequence[] of [an] injury.” In determining the appropriate amount of compensation for such loss, “[t]he age and occupation of the injured person, the nature and extent of his employment, the value of his services and the amount of his income at the time, whether from fixed wages or salary, are matters properly to be considered by the jury[,]” and “great latitude” is allowed in the introduction of such evidence. “The right of cross-examination provides the opposing party opportunity to challenge estimates of this nature [.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]everal witnesses testified to [plaintiff's] physical strength before and after the collision, indicating a diminution therein”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[p]laintiff[ ] testified that he had not experienced these conditions before the collision, and that he had since”
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.