47 N.C. App. 340 - Emanuel v. Fellows’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2017
18 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 Sink v. Easter · 43 N.C. App. 638 - Thomas v. Thomas · Crutcher v. Noel · 37 N.C. App. 737 - Cole v. Cole
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the party’s post-office address is known or can with reasonable diligence be ascertained, there shall be mailed to the party at or immediately prior to the first publication a copy of the notice of service of process by publication. The mailing may be omitted if the post-office address cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This Court has held that there is no 'restrictive mandatory checklist for what constitutes due diligence' for purposes of service of process by publication; '[r]ather, a case by case analysis is more appropriate.'”
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.