Temple v. Temple’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 1979 · most notably 42 N.C. App. 515 - Manpower of Guilford County, Inc. v. Hedgecock (1979), State v. Blackwell (1957)
25 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 Roberts v. Hill · Hopkins v. . Barnhardt · Spaugh v. City of Charlotte · Ward v. Cruse · Ridenhour v. . Ridenhour
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It thus appears that the trial judge erred in dismissing the action after verdict on the ground of insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict. However, the error seems to be immaterial. This is so because of a fatal defect of jurisdiction appearing on the face of the record. The complaint alleges that the defendant is a resident of Lewistown, Pennsylvania. The transcript discloses pur ported service of summons upon the defendant by the Sheriff of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania. However, nowhere in the record is there a sworn statement or affidavit ‘That, after due diligence, personal service cannot be had within the state/ as required by Chapter 919, Section 1, Session Laws of 1953, now codified in pertinent part as G.S. 1-98.4 (a) (3). Compliance with this statute is mandatory. The affidavit or sworn statement is jurisdictional. Without it, service outside the State is ineffectual to bring the defendant into court. See Nash County v. Allen, 241 N.C. 543 , 85 S.E. 2d 921 ; Groce v. Groce, 214 N.C. 398 , 199 S.E. 388 ; Denton v. Vassiliades, 212 N.C. 513 , 193 S.E. 737 .””
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.