110 N.C. App. 39 - Dickens v. Thorne’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably 112 N.C. App. 604 - Taylor v. Ashburn (1993), 122 N.C. App. 198 - Epps v. Duke University, Inc. (1996)
26 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 Dickens v. Puryear · Corum v. University of North Carolina · Smith v. State · Smith v. Hefner · Pruitt v. Williams
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] county may contract to insure itself and any of its officers, agents, or employees against liability for wrongful death or negligent or intentional damage to person or property caused by an act or omission of the county or of any of its officers, agents, or employees when acting within the scope of their authority and the course of their employment.... Purchase of insurance pursuant to this subsection waives the county’s governmental immunity, to the extent of insurance coverage, for any act or omission occurring in the exercise of a governmental function. Participation in a local government risk pool pursuant to Article 39 of General Statute Chapter 58 shall be deemed to be the purchase of insurance for the purposes of this section. However, a governmental entity generally retains immunity from civil liability in its governmental capacity to the extent it does not purchase liability insurance or participate in a local government risk pool pursuant to article 23 of chapter 58 of the General Statutes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[The plaintiff] at no time makes specific allegations against [the defendant] 'individually.' He does not indicate in the caption of the complaint whether he is suing [the defendant] in his 'official' or 'individual' capacity[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whenever the State of North Carolina, through its authorized officers and agencies, enters into a valid contract, the State implicitly consents to be sued for damages on the contract in the event it breaches the contract.”
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.