87 N.C. App. 591 - Garrison v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 246 N.C. App. 576 - Piazza v. Kirkbride (2016), 126 N.C. App. 489 - Lassiter v. English (1997)
34 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 National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Worthington v. Bynum · Bryant v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · Jackson v. Wilson Trucking Corp. · Goldsmith v. Diamond Shamrock Corp.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to allow the adverse party to meet any defects in his case with further proof and thus avoid the entry of a judgment notwithstanding the verdict at the close of the trial on a ground that could have been met with proof had it been suggested earlier.”
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.