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183 N.C. App. 637 - Dempsey v. Halford’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited

12 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Dobson v. Harris · Koontz v. City of Winston-Salem · Meyer v. Walls · 112 N.C. App. 604 - Taylor v. Ashburn · Grad v. Kaasa

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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “conclusory averments rest, ... not on experienced or otherwise substantiated fact, but on [the] plaintiff's subjective assessment of [a] defendant's motivations .... [the p]laintiff has not forecast evidence sufficient to permit reasonable minds to conclude that retaliatory motives behind [the defendant's] actions did, in fact, exist.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Public officials are distinct from public employees in that officers perform discretionary actions requiring deliberation, decision and judgment, while employees perform ministerial duties that are absolute and certain.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “are determined to be malicious or corrupt ... or beyond the scope of their official duties.”
    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.