80 N.C. App. 482 - Long v. Fink’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably 110 N.C. App. 803 - Clark v. Velsicol Chemical Corp. (1993), 129 N.C. App. 249 - Reunion Land Co. v. Village of Marvin (1998)
40 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 Kessing v. National Mortgage Corporation · 57 N.C. App. 437 - American Travel Corp. v. Central Carolina Bank & Trust Co. · American Travel Corporation v. Central Carolina Bank and Trust Company · 51 N.C. App. 545 - Town of Sylva v. Gibson · Town of Sylva v. Gibson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While the statute of limitations is tolled when suit is properly instituted, and it stays tolled as long as the action is alive, the tolling stops if the suit is discontinued by operation of law because of the plaintiff's failure to keep the action alive in an authorized manner after the original summons has lost its efficacy by not being served within the time allowed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An action for damages for personal injury arising out of an accident between two vehicles must be commenced within three years of the date on which the accident occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“does not breathe life into an action already barred by the statute of limitations.”
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.