84 N.C. App. 135 - Miller v. Ferree’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2018
22 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 Clark v. Clark · Harris v. Maready · Gower v. Aetna Insurance Company · Rustad v. Rustad · 65 N.C. App. 91 - Schell v. Coleman
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate courts should not disturb the trial court's exercise of discretion unless the challenged action is 'manifestly unsupported by reason.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should be applied `only when the trial court determines that less drastic sanctions will not suffice.'”
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.