119 N.C. App. 44 - Davis v. Messer’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably 123 N.C. App. 572 - Hyde v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc. (1996), Stone v. North Carolina Department of Labor (1998)
58 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 Sutton v. Duke · 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Roumillat v. Simplistic Enterprises, Inc. · Braswell v. Braswell · Smith v. Hefner
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Town ... promised it would provide fire-fighting assistance and protection; [that] the promised protection never arrived; and [that] plaintiffs relied upon the promise to respond to the fire as their exclusive source of aid, resulting in the complete destruction of their home,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on file, together with the affidavits, if any, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that any party is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“promis[es] protection to an individual, the protection is not forthcoming, and the individual's reliance on the promise of protection is causally related to the injury suffered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.