82 N.C. App. 112 - Flaherty v. Hunt’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 Estes v. Texas · North Carolina Consumers Power, Inc. v. Duke Power Co. · Ackerley Communications, Inc. v. City of Seattle · State v. Fayetteville Street Christian School · Stanback v. Stanback
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.
“When an official of a county, city or town is liable upon his bond for unlawfully and wrongfully retaining by virtue of his office a fund, or a part thereof . . . any citizen and taxpayer may . . . recover from the delinquent official the fund so retained. Any county commissioners . . . who fraudulently, wrongfully and unlawfully permit an official so to retain funds shall be personally liable therefor....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to expedite the administration of justice,”
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.