107 N.C. App. 87 - MacK v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably 165 N.C. App. 100 - Davis v. Durham Mental Health/Development Disabilities/Substance Abuse Area Authority (2004), 118 N.C. App. 640 - McClerin v. R-M Industries, Inc. (1995)
70 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 Turner v. Duke University · Bryson v. Sullivan · DeLuca v. Long Island Lighting Co. · 38 N.C. App. 61 - Covington v. Rhodes · 105 N.C. App. 620 - Taylor v. Taylor Products 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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An objective standard is used to determine the existence of an improper purpose, with the burden on the movant to prove such improper purpose.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n improper purpose is `any purpose other than one to vindicate rights ... or to put claims of right to a proper test.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he court must first determine the facial plausibility of the paper. If the paper is facially plausible, then the inquiry is complete, and sanctions are not proper. If the paper is not facially plausible, then the second issue is (1) whether the alleged offender undertook a reasonable inquiry into the law, and (2) whether, based upon the results of the inquiry, formed a reasonable belief that the paper was warranted by existing law, judged as of the time the paper was signed. If the court answers either prong of this second issue negatively, then Rule 11 sanctions are appropriate.”
4 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.