102 N.C. App. 1 - Bryson v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 2015
20 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 Gozlon-Peretz v. United States · Pavelic v. Marvel Entertainment Group · Turner v. Duke University · Golden Eagle Distributing Corp. v. Burroughs Corp. · Calloway v. Marvel Entertainment Group
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Rule 11 should `not have the effect of chilling creative advocacy,' and therefore, in determining compliance with Rule 11, `courts should avoid hindsight and resolve all doubts in favor of the signer.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“68. Plaintiffs’ complaint was signed and verified in violation of Rule 11 ... in that it was knowingly filed and served in the face of obvious defenses in bar of plaintiffs’ claims of which plaintiffs and their counsel had prior actual notice and which notice was a matter of public record .... 70. Plaintiffs’ complaint . . . was interposed for no other purpose than to harass defendant, cause unnecessary delay in the administration of the estate of Millie P. Bryson . . . and [has] needlessly increased the cost of the administration of the estate . . . , resulting in loss to the estate and its beneficiaries. 71. Defendant is entitled to have the Court impose sanctions upon plaintiffs for violation of Rule 11 ... by way of expenses incurred in defending this action and matters related thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryson v. Sullivan“Here the trial court entered no specific conclusions of law on improper purpose, concluding only that “plaintiffs at all times relied on advice of counsel.” The trial court apparently determined that reliance on counsel precluded an order of sanctions based upon improper purpose. This was an incorrect assumption; . . . Therefore, as this conclusion is inadequate to support the order that defendants were not entitled to sanctions for improper purpose, we vacate the trial court’s order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bryson v. Sullivan
How this case has been treated — in progress
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