111 N.C. App. 871 - Latham v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably In Re KAD (2007), 126 N.C. App. 432 - Matter of Mitchell (1997)
36 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 98 N.C. App. 147 - Johnson v. City of Raleigh · 57 N.C. App. 305 - Roshelli v. Sperry · 70 N.C. App. 281 - Childress v. Forsyth County Hospital Authority, Inc. · Bare v. Wayne Poultry Co. · Johnson v. Natural Resources & Community Development
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.
“The purpose of a summons is to give notice to a person to appear at a certain place and time to answer a complaint against him.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“summons, not the complaint, constitutes the exercise of the power of the State to bring the defendant before the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In order for a summons to serve as proper notification, it must be issued and served in the manner prescribed by statute.”
3 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.