Mobley v. Broome’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably North Carolina State Ports Authority v. Lloyd A. Fry Roofing Co. (1978), Kenneth Donaldson v. J. B. O'connor, M.D. And John Gumanis, M.D. (1974)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Taylor v. . Hodge · Dusenbury v. . Keiley · Perry v. Southern Surety Co. · Currin v. . Currin · Butts v. . Screws
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Ordinarily, the bar of the statute of limitations is a mixed question of law and fact. But where the bar is properly pleaded and all the facts with reference thereto are admitted the question of limitations becomes a matter of law.” Mobley v. Broome, 248 N.C. 54 , 102 S.E. 2d 407 ; Currin v. Currin, 219 N.C. 815 , 15 S.E. 2d 279 ; Ewbank v. Lyman, 170 N.C. 505 , 87 S.E. 348 . See also Perry v. Southern Surety Co., 190 N.C. 284 , 129 S.E. 721 .”
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.