125 N.C. App. 607 - Shella v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2016
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 North Carolina State Highway Commission v. Nuckles · NORTH CAROLINA STATE HIGHWAY COM'N v. Nuckles · Dickerson Carolina, Inc. v. Harrelson · 114 N.C. App. 693 - Dickerson Carolina, Inc. v. Harrelson · Piedmont Publishing Co. v. City of Winston-Salem
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Whenever, during the course of litigation it develops that the relief sought has been granted or that the questions originally in controversy between the parties are no longer at issue, the case should be dismissed, for courts will not entertain or proceed with a cause merely to determine abstract propositions of law.’ An appeal which presents a moot question should be dismissed. Judicial power only extends to concrete, justiciable, and actual controversies properly brought before the court and each decision of law must be based on specific facts established by stipulation or by appropriate legal procedure.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“she has been granted the relief she sought by initiating this action under [section] 132-9[,] ... her case must be dismissed [as moot].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“plaintiff moved to amend [her] complaint to add certain [additional] defendants and request compensatory and punitive damages.”
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.