38 N.C. App. 500 - Tart v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 201 N.C. App. 550 - Keith v. Wallerich (2009), 167 N.C. App. 324 - Tubiolo v. Abundant Life Church, Inc. (2004)
92 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 Pratt v. Paris Gaslight Coke Co · Coleman v. . Whisnant · Odell v. F. C. Farnsworth Co. · Buffalo Specialty Co. v. Gougar
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever it appears by suggestion of the parties or otherwise that the court lacks jurisdiction of the subject matter, the court shall dismiss the action.”
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.