88 N.C. App. 337 - Thomas v. Dixson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 161 N.C. App. 20 - Broughton v. McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. (2003), 103 N.C. App. 396 - Boyd v. LG DeWitt Trucking Co., Inc. (1991)
30 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 State v. Bullard · Smith v. Fiber Controls Corp. · Bryant v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance · Norwood v. Sherwin-Williams Co. · Hankins v. Somers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where there is `some fact, condition, or circumstance which would or might divert the attention of an ordinarily prudent person from discovering or seeing an existing dangerous condition,' the general rule does not apply.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether or not a building meets these standards, though not determinative of the issue of negligence, has some probative value as to whether or not defendant failed to keep his [premises] in a reasonably safe condition.”
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.