86 N.C. App. 1 - Johnson v. Bollinger’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably 153 N.C. App. 25 - Boyce & Isley, PLLC v. Cooper (2002), First Federal Bank v. Aldridge (2013)
1 federal appellate · 70 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 Scheuer v. Rhodes · Sutton v. Duke · White v. White · Stanback v. Stanback · Dickens v. Puryear
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides that all dismissals, including those under Rule 12(b)(6), operate as an adjudication upon the merits unless the trial court specifies the dismissal is without prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Rule 41(b) grants the trial court discretion to determine whether or not its dismissal shall 'operate . . . as an adjudication on the merits.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.