136 N.C. App. 430 - Little v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 85 N.C. App. 669 - Harris v. NCNB National Bank of North Carolina · Braswell v. Braswell · 89 N.C. App. 188 - Coleman v. Cooper · 119 N.C. App. 44 - Davis v. Messer · Baucom's Nursery Co. v. Mecklenburg County
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general common law rule, known as the public duty doctrine, is that a municipality and its agents act for the benefit of the public, and therefore, there is no liability for the failure to furnish police protection to specific individuals. This rule recognizes the limited resources of law enforcement and refuses to judicially impose an overwhelming burden of liability for failure to prevent every criminal act.”
2 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.