9 N.C. App. 167 - Wheeler v. Denton’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 26 Cal. App. 3d 986 - River Garden Farms, Inc. v. Superior Court (1972), 34 N.C. App. 503 - Love v. Pressley (1977)
60 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. Ford · Powell v. Daniel · Budge Manufacturing Co. v. United States · In Re the Will of Kemp · City of Durham v. EASTERN REALTY COMPANY
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen a release or a covenant not to sue ... is given in good faith to one of two or more persons liable in tort for the same injury . . .: (1) . . . it reduces the claim against the others to the extent of any amount stipulated by the release or the covenant, or in the amount of the consideration paid for it. . . .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he mere showing that there has been a settlement is not enough to show there has been a lack of good faith. [Finally, t]he burden of showing a lack of good faith is upon the party asserting it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[u]pon failure to state specific grounds, an appellant cannot question on appeal the insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chalk v. Braakman
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.