9 N.C. App. 490 - Samons v. Meymandi’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
May 1985
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McMichael v. Proctor · Fowle v. Fowle · Van Leuven v. Akers Motor Lines, Inc.
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.
““We are of the opinion . . . that the Legislature meant exactly what it says. . . . Since the statute was not complied with, plaintiff was deprived of her liberty without legal process. Taking a person without the intervention of any court proceeding ... to a State Hospital for examination and treatment is a drastic procedure. . . . There being a statute which provides for a drastic remedy, it is encumbent upon all that use it to do so with care and exactness, even though the user may think it ‘impractical.’ ””
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.