88 N.C. App. 297 - Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Bornemann v. Bornemann (1998), 125 Wash. 2d 865 - In Re the Marriage of Short (1995)
56 state decisions — followed in 15 states
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 White v. White · 81 N.C. App. 159 - Lawing v. Lawing · Young v. . Young · Richardson v. Richardson · 53 N.C. App. 700 - Wachovia Bank & Trust Co., N.A. v. Bounous
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“this rule more closely recognizes the purpose of stock options granted an employee which are designed so that they vest and become exercisable over a period of time; such options represent both compensation for the employee’s past services and incentives for the employee to continue in his employment in the future.”
2 later decisions 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.