110 N.C. App. 422 - Slade v. Vernon’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 141 N.C. App. 273 - Block v. County of Person (2000), 110 N.C. App. 707 - Messick v. Catawba County, NC (1993)
3 federal appellate · 79 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Corum v. University of North Carolina · 88 N.C. App. 1 - J & B Slurry Seal Co. v. Mid-South Aviation, Inc. · 99 N.C. App. 693 - Hare v. Butler
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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person injured by the neglect, misconduct, or misbehavior in office of any . . . sheriff . . . or other officer, may institute a suit or suits against said officer or any of them and their sureties upon their respective bonds for the due performance of their duties in office in the name of the State . . . and every such officer and the sureties on his official bond shall be liable to the person injured for all acts done by said officer by virtue or under color of his office.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] valid claim of immunity is more than a defense in a lawsuit; it is in essence immunity from suit. Were the case to be erroneously permitted to proceed to trial, immunity would be effectively lost.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]y expressly providing for this cause of action, the General Assembly has abrogated common law immunity where a public official causes injury through 'neglect, misconduct, or misbehavior’ in the performance of his official duties or under color of his office.” Slade v. Vernon, 110 N.C.App. 422, 427-28 , 429 S.E.2d 744, 747 (1993). 5 . North Carolina courts have noted, however, that the failure to name the surety as a defendant is”
2 later decisions 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.