86 N.C. App. 207 - Leonard v. Pugh’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 137 N.C. App. 179 - McLain v. Taco Bell Corp. (2000), Harlow v. Voyager Communications V (1998)
25 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 Weyerhaeuser Company v. Carolina Power & Light Co. · 57 N.C. App. 275 - Deitz v. Jackson · 55 N.C. App. 199 - Snug Harbor Property Owners Ass'n v. Curran · Century Communications, Inc. v. Housing Authority of Wilson & Site, Inc. · Sparrow v. Dixie Leaf Tobacco Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a complaint alleges a joint claim against more than one defendant, default judgment pursuant to G.S. 1A-1, Rule 55 should not be entered against a defaulting defendant until all defendants have defaulted; or if one or more do not default, then, generally, entry of default judgment should await an adjudication as to the liability of the non-defaulting defendants. If joint liability is decided against the defending party in favor of the plaintiff, the plaintiff is entitled to judgment against all defendants. If, however, joint liability is decided against the plaintiff, the complaint should be dismissed as to all defendants.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The controlling purpose of the court in construing such contracts, is to determine the intent of the parties at the time it was made. Where the language of a contract granting an easement is clear and unambiguous, the construction of the agreement is a matter for the court and reference to matters outside the contract itself is not required for a correct construction.”
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.