112 N.C. App. 307 - Alt v. Parker’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Hughes v. Bedsole (1995), Love-Lane v. Martin (2004)
6 federal appellate · 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 Youngberg v. Romeo Ex Rel. Romeo · Dennis v. Higgins · Corum v. University of North Carolina · Jones v. Gwynne · Potter v. Homestead Preservation Ass'n
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n the absence of an adequate state remedy.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“No facility or any of its officials, staff, or employees, or any physician or other individual who is responsible for the examination, management, supervision, treatment, or release of a client and who follows accepted professional judgment, practice, and standards is civilly liable, personally or otherwise, for actions arising from these responsibilities or for actions of the client. This immunity is in addition to any other legal immunity from liability to which these facilities or individuals may be entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[s]ince there is no evidence that [the] plaintiff ever filed a grievance action and received an unfavorable result and since [the] plaintiff had the common law tort action for false imprisonment available to him, we cannot say that [the] plaintiff is without adequate state remedy.”
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.