89 N.C. App. 294 - Eason v. Barber’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2019
12 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 Britt v. Allen · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Chantos · Cooley v. Baker · Cockrell v. Cromartie Transport Co. · DeHart v. FINANCIAL CORPORATION
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1A-1, Rule 59, a party may obtain a new trial either for errors of law committed during trial or for a verdict not sufficiently supported by the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n this context, the term ' insufficiency of the evidence' means that the verdict 'was against the greater weight of the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where errors of law were committed,..., the trial court is required to grant a new trial.”
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.