59 N.C. App. 223 - Jones v. Whitaker’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2007
6 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 57 N.C. App. 305 - Roshelli v. Sperry · Patterson v. . Walton · Fountain v. County of Pitt
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although service of process should correctly state the name of the parties, a mistake in the names is not always a fatal error, and as a general rule a mistake in the given name of a party who is served will not deprive the court of jurisdiction. 62 Am. Jur. 2d Process § 18 (1972). As stated in Patterson v. Walton, 119 N.C. 500, 501 , 26 S.E. 43 (1896), “Names are to designate persons, and where the identity is certain a variance in the name is immaterial.” Also, error or defects in the pleadings not affecting substantial rights are to be disregarded. Id. When original process has been served properly and amendments to it are to make process and pleadings consistent, the court will retain jurisdiction. Fountain v. County of Pitt, 171 N.C. 113 , 87 S.E. 990 (1916).”
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.