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← 78 NC 124 - Kirby v. . Mills

Kirby v. . Mills’s Empirical Analysis

1878

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
February 1886
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Parker v. . Shuford · Morehead v. . Wriston and Johnston, Adm'r. · Faison v. . Bowden

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It is a (446) just debt, and I will pay it, if I cannot prove that it has been settled by John Richmond,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Unless John Richmond has paid it for me, it is a just debt and I will pay it,”
    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.