105 N.C. App. 534 - Foy v. Spinks’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2019
17 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 Gibson v. Central Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance · 85 N.C. App. 362 - Miller v. C. W. Myers Trading Post, Inc. · 89 N.C. App. 649 - Process Components, Inc. v. Baltimore Aircoil Co. · State v. Smith · 86 N.C. App. 378 - Morris v. Bailey
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rental premises were unfit for human habitation and the landlord was aware of needed repairs but failed to honor his promises to correct the deficiencies ... such evidence would support a factual finding by the jury that the landlord committed an unfair or deceptive trade practice”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“3. Did plaintiffs fail to maintain the house rented by defendant in compliance with the Winston-Salem Housing Code or fail to make all repairs necessary to put and keep the house in fit and habitable condition? ANSWER: Yes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Hardin“Upon properly submitted issues the jury is to determine the facts and the trial court is to determine, as a matter of law, whether the landlord engaged in unfair or deceptive trade practices.”
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.