79 N.C. App. 579 - Bruce v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2013
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 Burnett v. New York Central Railroad · Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson · Fulp v. Fulp · Belk's Department Store, Inc. v. . Guilford County · Henderson v. Henderson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The primary purpose of a statute of limitations is to compel the exercise of a right of action within a reasonable time so that the opposing party has a fair opportunity to defend.” . . . “Statutes of limitation . . . are practical and pragmatic devices to spare the courts from litigation of stale claims.” They stimulate activity, punish negligence and promote repose by giving security and stability to human affairs. However, this policy of repose is often outweighed “where the interests of justice require vindication of the plaintiffs rights.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Marriages may be dissolved and the parties thereto divorced from the bonds of matrimony on the application of either party, if and when the husband and wife have lived separate and apart for one year, and the plaintiff or defendant in the suit for divorce has resided in the State for a period of six months.”
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.