170 N.C. App. 417 - Morris v. Rockingham County’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. State · Coats v. Sampson County Memorial Hospital, Inc. · 140 N.C. App. 115 - Thompson v. Norfolk Southern Railway Co. · In re Butts · Williams v. Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of section 1-77 is to avoid requiring public officers to 'forsake their civic duties and attend the courts of a distant forum.' " Wells v. Cumberland Cnty. Hosp. Sys., Inc. , 150 N.C.App. 584 , 587, 564 S.E.2d 74 , 76 (2002) (quoting Coats v. Sampson Cnty. Mem'l Hosp., Inc. , 264 N.C. 332 , 333, 141 S.E.2d 490 , 491 (1965) ). When considering an action against a "public officer,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a cause of action may be said to accrue, within the meaning of a statute fixing venue of actions, when it comes into existence as an enforceable claim, that is, when the right to sue becomes vested.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to exercise that degree of care which a reasonable and prudent [person] would exercise under similar conditions and which proximately cause injury or damage to another.”
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.