73 N.C. App. 331 - Heavner v. Heavner’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Jones v. Trojak (1993), 81 N.C. App. 675 - Dunlap v. Dunlap (1986)
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 Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Lamb v. Wedgewood South Corp. · 60 N.C. App. 331 - Blackwelder v. State Department of Human Resources · Jones v. Satterfield Development Co. · 53 N.C. App. 67 - Withrow v. Webb
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directs some further proceeding preliminary to the final decree.”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, there are two avenues by which a party may immediately appeal an interlocutory order or judgment. First, if the order or judgment is final as to some but not all of the claims or parties, and the trial court certifies the case for appeal pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1A-1, Rule 54(b), an immediate appeal will lie. Second, an appeal is permitted under N.C. Gen. Stat. §§ 1-277 (a) and 7A-27(d)(1) if the trial court's decision deprives the appellant of a substantial right which would be lost absent immediate review.”
12 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.