128 N.C. App. 490 - Smith v. Privette’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently December 2019 · most notably 145 N.C. App. 391 - Fuller v. Easley (2001), Elvig v. Calvin Presbyterian Church (2004)
6 federal appellate · 65 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 Employment Division Department of Human Resources of Oregon v. L Smith · Serbian Eastern Orthodox Diocese for United States and Canada v. Milivojevich · Presbyterian Church in US v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · Watson v. Jones · Kedroff v. Saint Nicholas Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church in North America
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he dispositive question is whether resolution of the legal claim requires the court to interpret or weigh church doctrine.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“To support a claim of negligent retention and supervision against an employer, the plaintiff must prove that the incompetent employee committed a tortious act resulting in injury to plaintiff and that prior to the act, the employer knew or had reason to know of the employee's incompetency.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Application of a secular standard to secular conduct that is tortious is not prohibited by the Constitution.”
3 later decisions 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.