67 N.C. App. 426 - Routh v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably 99 N.C. App. 30 - Roane-Barker v. Southeastern Hospital Supply Corp. (1990), 172 N.C. App. 595 - Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co. v. Bourlon (2005)
32 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 Coastal Ready-Mix Concrete Co, Inc. v. Board of Commissioners of Town of Nags Head · 57 N.C. App. 650 - Anderson Chevrolet/Olds, Inc. v. Higgins · Oliver v. Roberts · 46 N.C. App. 67 - Laing v. LIBERTY LOAN CO. OF SMITHFIELD, ETC. · Stroupe v. Stroupe
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The choice of sanctions under Rule 37 lies within the court's discretion and will not be overturned on appeal absent a showing of abuse of that discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a party ... fails to obey an order to provide or permit discovery, ... a judge of the court in which the action is pending may make such orders in regard to the failure as are just, and among others the following: .... (C) An order striking out pleadings or parts thereof, or staying further proceedings until the order is obeyed, or dismissing the action or proceeding or any part thereof, or rendering a judgment by default against the disobedient party; ....”
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.