70 N.C. App. 76 - Minor v. Minor’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably 187 N.C. App. 198 - Weaver v. Saint Joseph of the Pines, Inc. (2007), 124 N.C. App. 629 - Helms v. Holland (1996)
66 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 Clark v. Clark · Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company · BW Acceptance Corporation v. Spencer · 23 N.C. App. 21 - Corbin v. Langdon · Gooden v. Brooks
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion for judgment on the pleadings should not be granted unless the movant clearly establishes that no material issue of fact remains to be resolved and that the movant is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] consent judgment is a contract between parties entered upon the record with the approval and sanction of the court. [Citation omitted.] A consent judgment must be construed in the same manner as a contract to ascertain the intent of the parties; it must be interpreted in light of the controversy and the purposes intended to be accomplished by it. . . . Where the language of the contract is plain and unambiguous, the construction of the agreement is a matter of law; the court may not ignore or delete any of its provisions, nor insert words into it, but must construe the contract as written, in light of undisputed evidence as to custom, usage and meaning of its terms.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garner v. Garner“[a]fter the pleadings are closed but within such time as not to delay the trial, any party may move for judgment on the pleadings. If, on a motion for judgment on the pleadings, matters outside the pleadings are presented to and not excluded by the court, the motion shall be treated as one for summary judgment and disposed of as provided in Rule 56, and all parties shall be given rea sonable opportunity to present all material made pertinent to such a motion by Rule 56.”
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.