95 N.C. App. 596 - Bolton Corp. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2014
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Smith v. State · Matternes v. City of Winston-Salem · 38 N.C. App. 406 - Johnson v. Wall · Davidson & Jones, Inc. v. North Carolina Department of Administration · 64 N.C. App. 598 - Warren Bros. v. North Carolina Department of Transportation
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether a contract was intended for the benefit of a third party is generally regarded as one of construction of the contract. The intention of the parties is determined by the provisions of the contract construed in light of the circumstances under which it was made and the apparent purpose that the parties are trying to accomplish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is well settled in North Carolina that where a contract between two parties is entered into for the benefit of a third party, the latter may maintain an action for its breach or in tort if he has been injured as a result of its negligent performance.”
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.