69 N.C. App. 64 - Snipes v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 408 Ill. App. 3d 564 - Khan v. BDO Seidman, LLP (2011), 127 N.C. App. 1 - ESTATE OF SMITH, BY & THROUGH SMITH v. Underwood (1997)
2 federal appellate · 63 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 453
Relies on Dickens v. Puryear · Atkins v. Crosland · Hodges v. Carter · Raftery v. Wm. C. Vick Construction Co. · MORRIS SPEIZMAN COMPANY v. Williamson
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“not directly analogous to professional negligence suits against doctors or attorneys in general.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“as the slightest doubt as to the facts entitles plaintiff to a trial,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[although the statute of limitations set out in G.S. l-15(c) begins to run at the time of the last negligent act or breach of some duty, and not the time actual damage is discovered or fully ascertained, this statute still requires as an element of the cause of action for malpractice that plaintiff suffer some loss or injury, whether it be apparent or hidden. Plaintiff’s cause of action against defendants was not complete and did not fully arise until he was assessed by the I.R.S.”
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.