104 N.C. App. 29 - Hull v. Oldham’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably 121 N.C. App. 466 - Hedrick v. Rains (1996), Harter v. Vernon (1996)
3 federal appellate · 39 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 In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty · 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · 89 N.C. App. 188 - Coleman v. Cooper · Parker v. Amerson · Baucom's Nursery Co. v. Mecklenburg County
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n each county a Sheriff shall be elected by the qualified voters thereof at the same time and places as members of the General Assembly are elected and shall hold his office for a period of four years, subject to removal for cause as provided by law.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“representations or conduct by the police which cause the victim(s) to detrimentally rely on the police such that the risk of harm as the result of police negligence is something more than that to which the victim was already exposed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]here are exceptions to the general rule of no liability where a special relationship exists between the victim and law enforcement, such as where the victim is in police custody ....”
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.