Mills v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
120 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Lamb v. Wedgewood South Corp. (1983), 88 N.C. App. 1 - J & B Slurry Seal Co. v. Mid-South Aviation, Inc. (1987)
120 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 Veazey v. City of Durham · Waters v. Qualified Personnel, Inc. · Bailey v. Gooding · City of Raleigh v. Edwards · United Leasing Corp. v. Miller
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[allowing an immediate appeal only for “minimum contacts” jurisdictional questions precludes premature appeals to the appellate courts about issues of technical defects which can be fully and adequately considered on an appeal from final judgment, while ensuring that parties who have less than “minimum contacts” with this state will never be forced to trial against their wishes.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he right of immediate appeal of an adverse ruling as to jurisdiction over the person, under [N.C. Gen.Stat. § 1-277(b)], is limited to rulings on `minimum contacts' questions, the subject matter of Rule 12(b)(2).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny interested party shall have the right of immediate appeal from an adverse ruling as to the jurisdiction of the court over the person or property of the defendant . . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.