9 N.C. App. 152 - Hodges v. Wellons’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably State v. Fayetteville Street Christian School (1980), 45 N.C. App. 400 - United Leasing Corp. v. Miller (1980)
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 Turner Ex Rel. Turner v. Gastonia City Board of Education · CERTAIN-TEED PRODUCTS CORPORATION v. Sanders · Weir v. . Weir · Woodell v. Davis
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.
““It may well be appropriate, desirable, and courteous in many instances for a trustee to give actual notice to the debtor, the representative of his estate, or his heirs, of an intention to advertise and sell under a power of sale, nevertheless, such actual notice is not required as a matter of law (Citation omitted.)” Hodges v. Wellons, supra, at p. 156.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A complaint may be dismissed on motion filed under Rule 12(b)(6) if it is clearly without merit; such lack of merit may consist of an absence of law to support a claim of the sort made, absence of facts sufficient to make a good claim, or the disclosure of some fact which will necessarily defeat the claim.”
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.