115 N.C. App. 343 - Sealey v. Grine’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 124 N.C. App. 332 - Starco, Inc. v. AMG Bonding & Insurance Services, Inc. (1996), 127 N.C. App. 1 - ESTATE OF SMITH, BY & THROUGH SMITH v. Underwood (1997)
38 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 · City of Charlotte v. McNeely · 57 N.C. App. 650 - Anderson Chevrolet/Olds, Inc. v. Higgins · 59 N.C. App. 280 - Dixon, Odom & Co. v. Sledge · Williams v. Smith
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“means the costs recoverable in civil actions as delineated in N.C. Gen.Stat. § 7A-305(d) (1989).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Costs.A plaintiff who dismisses an action or claim under section (a) of this rule shall be taxed with the costs of the action unless the action was brought in forma pauperis. If a plaintiff who has once dismissed an action in any court commences an action based upon or including the same claim against the same defendant before the payment of the costs of the action previously dismissed, unless such previous action was brought in forma pauperis, the court, upon motion of the defendant, shall make an order for the payment of such costs by the plaintiff within 30 days and shall stay the proceedings in the action until the plaintiff has complied with the order. If the plaintiff does not comply with the order, the court shall dismiss the action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he filing of notice of dismissal, while it may terminate adversary proceedings in the case, does not terminate the court's authority to enter orders apportioning and taxing costs pursuant to Rule 41.”
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.