Teer v. Jordan’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Corum v. University of North Carolina (1992), Smith v. State (1976)
37 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 Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company of Texas v. Clay May · Pue v. . Hood, Comr. of Banks · Prudential Insurance Co. of America v. Powell · Cox v. . Kinston · Schloss v. State Highway & Public Works Commission
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . . While the activities of governmental agencies engaged in public service imposed by law ought not to be stayed or hindered merely at the suit of an individual who does not agree with the policy or discretion of those charged with responsibility, the right of a citizen and taxpayer to maintain an action in the courts to restrain the unlawful use of public funds to his injury cannot be denied. S. v. Scott, 182 N.C. 865 , 109 S.E. 789 ; Hinton v. Lacy, 193 N.C. 496 , 137 S.E. 669 ; Freeman v. Commissioners, 217 N.C. 209 (212), [7] S.E. 2d 354; Shaw v. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., 226 N.C. 477 , 38 S.E. 2d 313 . ...””
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.