85 N.C. App. 333 - Hightower v. Hightower’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2005
12 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 77 N.C. App. 717 - Beaman v. Beaman · 64 N.C. App. 600 - Medlin v. Medlin · 51 N.C. App. 522 - Condie v. Condie
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has previously held that pursuant to the provisions of N.C. Gen.Stat. § 1A-1, Rule 58 of the Rules of Civil Procedure, after `entry' of judgment in open court, a trial court retains the authority to approve the judgment and direct its prompt preparation and filing.”
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.