153 N.C. App. 488 - Clayton v. Branson’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 154 N.C. App. 426 - Peverall v. County of Alamance (2002), 170 N.C. App. 438 - Clayton v. Branson (2005)
2 federal appellate · 16 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 Owen v. City of Independence · Meyer v. Walls · 112 N.C. App. 604 - Taylor v. Ashburn · 110 N.C. App. 422 - Slade v. Vernon · 99 N.C. App. 693 - Hare v. Butler
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The denial of a motion for summary judgment, is interlocutory and is not generally appealable. Where the summary judgment motion was based on a substantial claim of immunity, a party may immediately appeal the denial of summary judgment. Defendants assert a claim of sovereign immunity. We address only the issue of whether these claims are barred by sovereign immunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the purchase of liability insurance for liability of more than $2 million but less than $4 million’ did not waive [the City’s] immunity for liability less than $2 million”); Schlossberg v. Goins, 141 N.C.App. 436, 445 , 540 S.E.2d 49, 55 (2000) (holding that”
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.