71 N.C. App. 35 - Biggers v. Evangelist’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably 87 N.C. App. 325 - Zinn v. Walker (1987), 81 N.C. App. 56 - Opsahl v. Pinehurst Inc. (1986)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Lane v. Scarborough · Humphries v. City of Jacksonville · Crockett v. FIRST FEDERAL S. & L. ASS'N, ETC. · Crockett v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Charlotte · B. BOGLE v. Duke Power Company
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is well-recognized that the intent of the parties controls whether the doctrine of merger should apply. Stewart v. Phillips, 154 Ga. App. 379 , 268 S.E.2d 427 (1980) (survival clause-no merger); Bryant v. Turner, 150 Ga. App. 65 , 256 S.E.2d 667 (1979) (closing statement revealed intent not to merge); Vaughey v. Thompson, 95 Ariz. 139 , 387 P.2d 1019 (1963), 8A G.W. Thompson, Real Property Sec. 4458 (1963 & Supp. 1981); Annot., 38 A.L.R.2d 1310 (1953).”
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.