Waters v. McBee’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 1993
12 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 Bullington v. . Angel · Jones v. Brinson · Rhyne v. . Lipscombe · Howle v. Twin States Express, Inc. · Thompson v. . Humphrey
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.
“The phrase `shall have jurisdiction over the entire county in which said court may be established', G.S. 7-265, does not have reference to the kind or character of action of which the court may take jurisdiction nor of the parties who may be subject to its jurisdiction. It merely fixes the territorial limits within which the court may act. A court has no power or authority to hear and determine matters in controversy beyond its territorial limits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelms v. Nelms“Had it been the intention of the Legislature to limit the jurisdiction of the General County Court to causes of action arising in the county, it would have been simple and appropriate for it to have inserted such a provision in § 14 of the Act, prescribing the jurisdiction of the court. G.S. § 7-279. No such limitation appears.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelms v. Nelms“2. Jurisdiction concurrent with the Superior Court in all actions founded on contract;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nelms v. Nelms
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.