73 N.C. App. 639 - Hale v. Hale’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2016
14 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 In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge No. 53 Peoples · Teachy v. Coble Dairies, Inc. · Kinross-Wright v. Kinross-Wright · Barber v. . Barber · Neal v. Neal
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction of the court over the person of a defendant is obtained by service of process, voluntary appearance, or consent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[ N.C. Gen. Stat. § 1-277 (b) ] does not apply to orders denying motions made pursuant to ... Rule 12(b)(1) seeking dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. Therefore, we need only decide whether our courts can properly assert personal jurisdiction over defendant.”
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.