37 N.C. App. 737 - Cole v. Cole’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2005
12 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 City of Monroe v. Niven · Harrell v. . Welstead · Webb v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RAILROAD COMPANY · 29 N.C. App. 564 - Byrd v. Trustees of Watts Hospital, Inc.
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the summons is not served within the statutory period, it loses its vitality and does not confer jurisdiction over the person of the defendant.... Thus the court was without jurisdiction to enter judgment against defendant[.]”
2 later decisions 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.