69 N.C. App. 140 - Jenkins v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Flaherty v. Weinberg (1985), 85 N.C. App. 292 - Fox v. Wilson (1987)
5 federal appellate · 54 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 Bernick v. Jurden · Teachy v. Coble Dairies, Inc. · 45 N.C. App. 400 - United Leasing Corp. v. Miller · United Leasing Corp. v. Miller · Graves v. Welborn
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a client merely represents a class of beneficiaries, the attorney should consider the beneficiaries' interests, without undue concern for the interests of the legal representative.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the complaint, liberally construed, shows no insurmountable bar to recovery.”
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.