117 N.C. App. 85 - Clark v. Burke County’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably 155 N.C. App. 415 - Paquette v. County of Durham (2002), 174 N.C. App. 30 - Fabrikant v. Currituck County (2005)
5 federal appellate · 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 110 N.C. App. 707 - Messick v. Catawba County, NC · Messick v. CATAWBA COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA · Bullins v. Schmidt · 90 N.C. App. 447 - Peele v. Provident Mutual Life Insurance · Peele v. PROVIDENT MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[g]overnmental immunity ... does not preclude an action against the sheriff and the officers sued in their official capacities.... The statutory mandate that the sheriff furnish a bond works to remove the sheriff from the protective embrace of governmental immunity....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When suing a county or its officers, agents or employees, the complainant must allege [a] waiver in order to recover.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“gives every indication that the control of the employees hired by the sheriff is vested exclusively in the sheriff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knight v. Vernon
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.