6 N.C. App. 179 - Simmons v. Wilder’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1999
3 federal appellate · 13 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 Ellington Ex Rel. Ellington v. Bradford · Hoke v. Atlantic Greyhound Corp. · Galloway v. Lawrence · Webb v. Eggleston · Webb v. . Eggleston
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“G.S. 1-540.1, on its face applies only to actions for personal injury. The statute says nothing about actions for wrongful death. Statutes in derogation of the common law must be strictly construed. Ellington v. Bradford, 242 N.C. 159 , 86 S.E. 2d 925 . This Court may not, under the guise of judicial interpretation, interpolate provisions which are wanting in the statute and thereupon adjudicate the rights of the parties thereunder. Board of Education v. Wilson, 215 N.C. 216 , 1 S.E. 2d 544 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“different Statute of Limitations (from that applicable to actions for personal injuries) governs the time within which the action (for wrongful death) may be brought.”
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.