91 N.C. App. 478 - MacK v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2016
22 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. Hardy · Ager v. Jane C. Stormont Hospital & Training School for Nurses · 81 N.C. App. 675 - Dunlap v. Dunlap · 89 N.C. App. 415 - Benfield v. Benfield · Allstate Insurance v. Nationwide Ins.
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]s a general rule, an order compelling discovery is not immediately appealable because it is interlocutory and does not affect a substantial right which would be lost if the ruling is not reviewed before final judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“treat [a] purported appeal as a petition for writ of certiorari and address the merits [of the arguments presented to this Court].”
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.