63 N.C. App. 509 - Roshelli v. Sperry’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2011
16 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 · Morton v. Blue Ridge Insurance Company
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.
“The purpose of Rule 4(d) is only to keep the action alive by means of an endorsement on the original summons or by issuance of an alias or pluries summons in situations where the original, properly directed summons was not yet served.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“pertains to the extension of time for `service' of a summons which has been properly issued against a named defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[u]pon the filing of the complaint, summons shall be issued forthwith....”
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.