80 N.C. App. 459 - Ash v. Burnham Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 151 N.C. App. 158 - Wyatt v. Walt Disney World, Co. (2002), 220 N.C. App. 286 - Birtha v. Stonemor, North Carolina, LLC (2012)
21 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Helicopteros Nacionales De Colombia, S. A. v. Hall · Keeton v. Hustler Magazine, Inc. · Perkins v. Benguet Consolidated Mining Co. · Dillon v. Numismatic Funding Corp.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has preserved some semblance of independence from the parent”
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.