77 N.C. App. 667 - Dorton v. Dorton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 149 N.C. App. 19 - Keener Lumber Co., Inc. v. Perry (2002), 84 N.C. App. 471 - Geer v. Geer (1987)
37 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 Dewitt Truck Brokers, Inc. v. W. Ray Flemming Fruit Co. · Glenn v. Wagner · Henderson v. SECURITY MORTAGAGE AND FINANCE CO. · 75 N.C. App. 414 - Poore v. Poore · 68 N.C. App. 548 - Alexander v. Alexander
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.
“should be invoked only in an extreme case where necessary to serve the ends of justice.”
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.