91 N.C. App. 362 - Evans v. Appert’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2018
21 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 Zimmerman v. Hogg & Allen, Professional Ass'n · Rorrer v. Cooke · 38 N.C. App. 50 - Ballenger v. Crowell · Conover v. Newton · 72 N.C. App. 306 - Beaver v. Hancock
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court is not barred in every case from granting summary judgment before discovery is completed. Further, the decision to grant or deny a continuance [to complete discovery] is solely within the discretion of the trial judge and will be reversed only when there is a manifest abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fail[s] to produce sufficient evidence of the applicable standard of care, of a breach of that standard of care, and that the damages suffered . . . were proximately caused”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jeffress v. Reddy“when discovery procedures, which might lead to the production of evidence relevant to the motion, are still pending.”
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.