123 N.C. App. 150 - Long v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2011
8 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 53 N.C. App. 354 - BLUE RIDGE SPORTCYCLE CO., INC. v. Schroader · 65 N.C. App. 63 - Johnston County v. McCormick · 94 N.C. App. 567 - Hooper v. C. M. Steel, 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A finding of liability against defendant. . . employer, is only possible if [the employee] is found liable, and the injuries arose out of and in the course of his [or her] employment [with defendant employer]. In other words, defendant [employer’s] liability is derivative of [its employee’s] liability, and the primary claim against the [employee] must first be determined before any claim against [defendant employer] is possible. . . . If plaintiffs do not recover against [the employee], they cannot seek to recover against defendant [employer] under a respondeat superior theory....”
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.