Shearin v. Lloyd’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Pembee Mfg. Corp. v. Cape Fear Const. Co., Inc. (1985), North Carolina State Ports Authority v. Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co. (1978)
13 federal appellate · 126 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 6 Cal. 2d 302 - Huysman v. Kirsch · Hunt v. Bradshaw · City of Goldsboro v. Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. · Albert v. Sherman · Capucci v. Barone
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen confronted with such a cause, the urge is strong to write into the statute exceptions that do not appear therein. In such case, we must bear in mind Lord Campbell's caution: Hard cases must not make bad laws.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is well settled that when an act is not necessarily injurious or is not an invasion of the rights of another, and the act itself affords no cause of action, the statute of limitations begins to run against an action for consequential injuries resulting therefrom only from the time actual damage ensues.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is well settled that in an action for damages, resulting from negligent breach of duty, the statute of limitations begins to run from the breach, from the wrongful act or omission complained cf. without regard to the time when the harmful consequences were discovered.” Shearin v. Lloyd, 246 N.C. 363 , 98 S.E.2d 508 (1957).”
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.