65 N.C. App. 139 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 139 N.C. App. 676 - Johnson v. Trustees of Durham Technical Community College (2000), 104 N.C. App. 240 - Baker v. Rushing (1991)
36 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 Zimmerman v. Hogg & Allen, Professional Ass'n · McNair v. Boyette · Boyce v. McMahan · 49 N.C. App. 311 - Oliver v. Roberts · Petticord v. Heefner
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A genuine issue of material fact has been defined as one in which `the facts alleged are such as to constitute a legal defense or are of such nature as to affect the result of the action, or if the resolution of the issue is so essential that the party against whom it is resolved may not prevail.... [A] genuine issue is one which can be maintained by substantial evidence.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that any party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions 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.