84 N.C. App. 666 - Harris v. Pembaur’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 181 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 134 N.C. App. 217 - Shell Island Homeowners Ass'n v. Tomlinson (1999), 158 N.C. App. 441 - In Re McKinney (2003)
179 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 Simms v. MASON'S STORES, INC.(NC-1) · Champion v. Waller
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 181 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Jurisdiction of the court over the subject matter of an action is the most critical aspect of the court's authority to act. Subject matter jurisdiction refers to the power of the court to deal with the kind of action in question[, and] ... is conferred upon the courts by either the North Carolina Constitution or by statute.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“Subject matter jurisdiction is conferred upon the courts by either the North Carolina Constitution or by statute.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“Except for the original jurisdiction in respect of claims against the State which is vested in the Supreme Court, original general jurisdiction of all justiciable matters of a civil nature cognizable in the General Court of Justice is vested in the aggregate in the superior court division and the district court division as the trial divisions of the General Court of Justice. Except in respect of proceedings in probate and the administration of decedents’ estates, the original civil jurisdiction so vested in the trial divisions is vested concurrently in each division.”
3 later decisions 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.