117 N.C. App. 378 - Smith v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Fogg v. MacAluso (1995), 169 N.C. App. 460 - Boyd v. Robeson County (2005)
25 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 Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · Corum v. University of North Carolina · Collingwood v. GEN. ELEC. R. EST. EQUIT. · Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Smith v. State
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e conclude that waiver of a sheriff's official immunity may be shown by the existence of his official bond as well as by his county's purchase of liability insurance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“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.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“waive its [sovereign] immunity from tort liability to the extent that it has purchased liability insurance for negligence caused by an act or omission of the county or any of its officers, agents, or employees when performing government functions.”
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.