27 N.C. App. 1 - Van Buren v. Glasco’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2021
20 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 Harrington v. Rice · Karlsson v. Rabinowitz · Holmen v. Miller · Day v. United Securities Corporation · Temple v. Norris
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“However, we are not called upon to decide in this case whether appellant's South Carolina house might simultaneously qualify along with his North Carolina home as his `dwelling house or usual place of abode' for purposes of substituted service of process. We need only decide, as we do, that the North Carolina house so qualified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheldon v. Fettig“In a highly mobile and affluent society, it is unrealistic to interpret Rule 4(d)(1) so that the person to be served has only one dwelling house or usual place of abode at which process may be left.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sheldon v. Fettig
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.