128 N.C. App. 439 - Rousselo v. Starling’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably 134 N.C. App. 294 - Staley v. Lingerfelt (1999), Wilkerson v. Duke University (2013)
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Harlow v. Fitzgerald · Mitchell v. Forsyth · Corum v. University of North Carolina · Richmond v. Lewis · In re Whitaker
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the existence of an adequate alternate remedy is premised on whether there is a remedy available to [the] plaintiff for the violation, not on whether there is a right to obtain that remedy from the State in a common law tort action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]n the absence of an adequate state remedy, one whose state constitutional rights have been abridged has a direct claim against the State under our Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no adequate state law remedy for his claim and ... he is entitled to bring a claim under the North Carolina Constitution.”
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.