79 N.C. App. 605 - Tatum v. Tatum’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
January 2007
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Fiber Controls Corp. · State v. McMorris · Clark v. Roberts · Durham v. Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance · 19 N.C. App. 357 - In Re the Will of Herring
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person having the capacity to exercise ordinary care for his own safety against injury is required by law to do so, and if he fails to exercise such care, and such failure, concurring and cooperating with the actionable negligence of defendant contributes to the injury complained of, he is guilty of contributory negligence. Ordinary care is such care as an ordinarily prudent person would exercise under the same or similar circumstances to avoid injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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