Roach v. Lupoli Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2012
6 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. 450 - Bradley v. E. B. Sportswear, Inc. · Long v. Morganton Dyeing & Finishing Co. · 80 N.C. App. 722 - Tyndall v. Tyndall
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Just because [the plaintiff] felt pain for the first time hours after the time he alleges he injured himself, does not mean that the “specific traumatic incident” could not have occurred when he says it did. Logic dictates that injury and pain do not have to occur simultaneously for [the plaintiff] to establish that he sustained a compensable injury ....”
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.