Walton v. . Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2000
8 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.
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.
“It is the duty of every court to supply the omissions of its officers in recording its proceedings, and to see that its record truly sets forth its action in each and every instance; and this it must do upon the application of any person interested, and without regard to its effect upon the rights of parties or of third persons; and neither is it open to any other tribunal to call in question the propriety of its action or the verity of its records as made. This power of a court to amend its records has been too often recognized by this Court, and its exercise commended, to require the citation of authorities, other than a few of the leading cases on the subject. See Phillipse v. Higdon , 44 N.C. 380 ; Foster v. Woodfin , 65 N.C. 29 ; Mayo v. Whitson , 47 N.C. 231 ; Kirkland v. Mangum , 50 N.C. 313 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. R. R. v. . Reid
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.