122 N.C. App. 507 - Meyer v. Walls’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably Meyer v. Walls (1997), 147 N.C. App. 336 - Wood v. North Carolina State University (2001)
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 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Smith v. Hefner · 99 N.C. App. 693 - Hare v. Butler · Vaughn v. North Carolina Department of Human Resources · 122 N.C. App. 198 - Epps v. Duke University, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Interpretations that would create a conflict between two or more statutes are to be avoided, and "statutes should be reconciled with each other ..." whenever possible. Hunt v. Reinsurance Facility, 302 N.C. 274, 288 , 275 S.E.2d 399 , 405 (1981). When a more generally applicable statute conflicts with a more specific, special statute, the "special statute is viewed as an exception to the provisions of the general statute...." Domestic Electric Service, Inc. v. City of Rocky Mount, 20 N.C.App. 347, 350 , 201 S.E.2d 508, 510 , aff'd 285 N.C. 135 , 203 S.E.2d 838 (1974).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The General Assembly created the State Board of Education and fixed its duties. It is an agency of the State with statewide application. The General Assembly likewise created the county and city boards and fixed their duties which are altogether local. The Tort Claims Act, applicable to the State Board of Education and to the State departments and agencies, does not include local units such as county and city boards of education. Tort claims may be filed before the Industrial Commission against “the State Board of Education, State Highway & Public Works Commission, and all other departments, institutions, and agencies of the State.” Claims for tort liability are allowed only by virtue of the waiver of the State’s immunity. Under the ordinary rules of construction, “departments, institutions, and agencies of the State” must be interpreted in connection with the preceding designation, “State Board of Education and State Highway & Public Works Commission.” Where words of general enumeration follow those of specific classification, the general words will be interpreted to fall within the same category as those previously designated. The maxim ejusdem generis applies especially to the construction of legislative enactments. It is founded upon the obvious reason that if the legislative body had intended the general words to be used in their unrestricted sense the specific words would have been omitted. In no sense may we consider the Gastonia City Board of Education in the same cat”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyer v. Walls“A public officer is someone whose position is created by the constitution or statutes of the sovereign. An essential difference between a public office and mere employment is the fact that the duties of the incumbent of an office shall involve the exercise of some portion of sovereign power. Officers exercise a certain amount of discretion, while employees perform ministerial duties. Discretionary acts are those requiring personal deliberation, decision and judgment; duties are ministerial when they , are absolute, certain, and imperative, involving merely the execution of a specific duty arising from fixed and designated facts.”
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.